Firefox 3 for FreeBSD 7.0 release

[Mel]

On Saturday 05 July 2008 17:56:00 dfeustel at mindspring.com wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 04:40:35PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 02:27:42PM +0000, dfeustel at mindspring.com wrote:
> > > I downloaded the firefox*gz file from devel but it doesn't make for
> > > 64-bit.  Is Firefox 3 available for 64-bit AMD FreeBSD 7.0?
> >
> > It builds fine from ports on amd64 7-STABLE. Use the port www/firefox3.
> >
> > Roland
>
> I'm running 7.0-release. I ran portsnap and then porsnap extract.
> Then I cd'd to the firefox3 subdirectory and ran make. Make aborted with
> the message that it could not find -lgio-2.0. I checked the Freebsd
> ports tree and found gio-2.16. I downloaded it and ran make, but that
> make aborted with the same message as the make of firefox3.

Your gnome2 is outof sync. Read:
/usr/bin/less -p 20080323 /usr/ports/UPDATING
/usr/bin/less -p 20080630 /usr/ports/UPDATING

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.