Mozilla installation - XFree86 Makefile broken ?

Ben Washington-Yule benwy_01 at yahoo.com.au
Wed Oct 27 04:03:56 PDT 2004


Adrien Reboisson wrote:

> Thank you Ben
>
> I don't understand where is the problem : when I "ask" freeBSD to 
> install mozilla, sources and makefiles are downloaded from Internet - 
> they should be up to date, no ?

Not necessarily; you must update the "skeleton" files yourself using a 
utility like CVSup.

>
> Anyway I'll try to use your command. Thank you very much.
>
> Regards,
>
> A.R.
>
>> For a quick fix you could try "pkg_add -r XFree86-fontScalable", this 
>> will download and install the pre-compiled binary. When was the last 
>> time you CVSup'd?
>>
>> - Ben
>>
>>
>
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You may like to read 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html and 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html


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