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Date:      Sat, 5 Jul 2008 18:12:15 +0200
From:      Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox 3 for FreeBSD 7.0 release
Message-ID:  <200807051812.15611.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080705155600.D25958FC1D@mx1.freebsd.org>
References:  <20080705155600.D25958FC1D@mx1.freebsd.org>

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On Saturday 05 July 2008 17:56:00 dfeustel@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@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

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.



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