Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:40:44 +0200
From:      Robby Balona <robby@grab.co.za>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox3 port problem
Message-ID:  <4888946C.7040501@grab.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <20080724142536.GA91314@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
References:  <48888944.1050203@grab.co.za> <20080724142536.GA91314@slackbox.xs4all.nl>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Thanks Roland

I have much to learn.

Regards

Robby



Roland Smith wrote:
> 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
>   




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4888946C.7040501>