From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 13:45:19 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A77741065677 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:45:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8934A8FC16 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:45:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from max.local (rrcs-74-218-226-253.se.biz.rr.com [74.218.226.253]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m85DjI1r047629 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 09:45:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 09:46:09 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200809021314.39209.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809050946.09315.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: Google Chrome X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:45:19 -0000 On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Vlad GURDIGA wrote: > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Beech Rintoul 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