Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 09:46:09 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Google Chrome Message-ID: <200809050946.09315.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <da7069940809021557j5cd1fd3ch593d5eb50e91110f@mail.gmail.com> References: <da7069940809021338s686fc5a0pbf226363ec8f6427@mail.gmail.com> <200809021314.39209.beech@freebsd.org> <da7069940809021557j5cd1fd3ch593d5eb50e91110f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Vlad GURDIGA wrote: > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Vlad GURDIGA said: > >> Hello, > >> > >> In Google Chrome System requirements > >> (http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95411&to > >>pic=14660) they say that a Linux version is going to appear. And in > >> the "Download and install" help article > >> (http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95346&qu > >>ery=open-source&topic=&type=) they say that it is open-source. > >> > >> Does this mean that is hope we'll have a FreeBSD version? > > > > If someone steps up and rolls and submits the port. You're welcome to > > volunteer :-) > > I'd be glad to, but I'm afraid I do not have the skills for that... :-( It won't be trivial to port. Last night I got as far as installing the recommended versions of the dependencies (including nspr and nss a version ahead of what's currently in ports). The chromium build script assumes the existence of /proc and /bin/bash. I stopped trying for now when I discovered that it doesn't even run "configure" for some of the third-party tools. It uses canned header files generated for Linux or Mac.. JN
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