Firefox 3 for FreeBSD 7.0 release

dfeustel at mindspring.com dfeustel at mindspring.com
Sat Jul 5 16:47:29 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 07:31:28PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> 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.
>> _______________________________________________
>
> 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.
> _______________________________________________

/usr/ports/UPDATING is not shown by ls.  My original install of the
ports tree was from the 7.0 release on DVD.  Then today I ran portsnap
and portsnap extract. portsnap extract reported 5 new ports. How to find
out their names?

Thanks.


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