Firefox3 port problem
Roland Smith
rsmith at xs4all.nl
Thu Jul 24 14:26:19 UTC 2008
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 03:53:08PM +0200, Robby Balona wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> I have been tring to port firefox3 on freebsd 7 for a week now. I keep
> coming up against this error
Why are you trying to port it? It is allready in ports: www/firefox3
> gmake:***[libgiofam.la] Error 1
>
> I have done a portsnap update already.
Using portsnap is not enough; it just updates the ports tree. You also
need to update your installed ports.
> Please dont flame me for not looking on google for the error as I have
> not really worried about it until now, when I need firefox.
You need to update your installed ports. You're missing gio-fam-backend,
which is now needed by the gtk+ toolkit which is needed for firefox.
Use portmaster or portupgrade to upgrade all you installed ports.
Roland
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