Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 16:44:07 +1000 From: Timothy Smith <timothy@open-networks.net> To: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't build firefox 1.0.4 on 4.10 Message-ID: <42859E37.1080100@open-networks.net> In-Reply-To: <428537EF.1040306@dial.pipex.com> References: <42832E02.2090003@open-networks.net> <42837807.2090407@dial.pipex.com> <42837E15.9020302@dial.pipex.com> <4283CF69.8010005@open-networks.net> <4284D3D6.4030409@dial.pipex.com> <42851CCB.8030603@open-networks.net> <428537EF.1040306@dial.pipex.com>
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Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Timothy Smith wrote: > >> ./configure gets >> >> *** The libIDL-config script installed by libIDL could not be found >> *** If libIDL was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in >> *** your path, or set the LIBIDL_CONFIG environment variable to the >> *** full path to libIDL-config. >> checking for orbit-config... no >> configure: error: libIDL not found. >> libIDL 0.6.3 or higher is required. > > > [and ...] > >> %locate libIDL-config-2 >> /usr/local/bin/libIDL-config-2 >> %which make >> /usr/bin/make >> %ls -lsa `which make` >> 224 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 206736 May 26 2004 /usr/bin/make >> > That looks right. (Btw "/usr/local/bin/libIDL-config was installed by > package ORBit-0.5.17_2" and that doesn't appear to be a dependency of > firefox's. I think the message from firefox install is just confusing > the issue and it is libIDL-config-2 that's required). > > More obvious questions. You are doing the firefox install as root and > root does have /usr/local/bin/ in it's path and libIDL-config-2 is > executable? As root check with: "which libIDL-config-2". > > Just to confirm it working, I tried just configuring firefox and got: > > checking for libIDL-2.0 >= 0.8.0... yes > checking LIBIDL_CFLAGS... -I/usr/local/include/libIDL-2.0 > -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include > checking LIBIDL_LIBS... -L/usr/local/lib -lIDL-2 > > I'm not sure what else to suggest. make clean in firefox and try > making again. > > --Alex > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > i wasn't doing ./configure as root, doing it as root and it's found libIDL-config without a problem, however i've runinto something else now make halts at "Makefile", line 386: Missing dependency operator Error expanding embedded variable. note there's a few other missing dependency operator msg's above that a quick look in the make file see's this at line 386 # Hack to generate xpidl Makefile ifneq ($(BUILD_MODULES),all)
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