Firefox 3 for FreeBSD 7.0 release

[Manolis Kiagias]

dfeustel at mindspring.com wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 06:12:15PM +0200, Mel wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> Unfortunately there is no subdirectory /usr/ports/UPDATING on my system.
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UPDATING is not a directory, it is a text file in /usr/ports, and if you 
are missing it, something went terribly wrong when you fetched the ports 
tree.