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Date:      Sat,  5 Jul 2008 17:07:37 +0000 (UTC)
From:      YANSWBVCG <daf>
To:        Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com>, Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox 3 for FreeBSD 7.0 release
Message-ID:  <20080705170738.221EA8FC16@mx1.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080705164729.6CA138FC1A@mx1.freebsd.org>

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On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 04:47:29PM +0000, dfeustel@mindspring.com wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 07:31:28PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> > dfeustel@mindspring.com wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 06:12:15PM +0200, Mel wrote:
> >>   
> >>> 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
> >>>     
> >>
> >> Unfortunately there is no subdirectory /usr/ports/UPDATING on my system.
> >> _______________________________________________
> >
> > UPDATING is not a directory, it is a text file in /usr/ports, and if you 
> > are missing it, something went terribly wrong when you fetched the ports 
> > tree.
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> /usr/ports/UPDATING is not shown by ls.  My original install of the
> ports tree was from the 7.0 release on DVD.  Then today I ran portsnap
> and portsnap extract. portsnap extract reported 5 new ports. How to find
> out their names?
> 
> Thanks.
> _______________________________________________

My Mistake! I got confused about which BSD system I was running on.
The UPDATING file is present on the FreeBSD system.
It may be time for me to make FreeBSD my main machine.



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