From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 4 23:42:01 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03CF21065670 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 23:42:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de) Received: from smtp.kn-bremen.de (gelbbaer.kn-bremen.de [78.46.108.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B938E8FC1D for ; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 23:42:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id ADD931E0076E; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:41:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from triton8.kn-bremen.de (noident@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o14NehSs094040; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:40:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox@triton8.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o14NehTF094039; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:40:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox) Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:40:43 +0100 (CET) From: Juergen Lock Message-Id: <201002042340.o14NehTF094039@triton8.kn-bremen.de> To: rotkaps_spam_trap@gmx.de X-Newsgroups: local.list.freebsd.ports In-Reply-To: References: <20100204001933.GA11586@bsdcrew.de> <201002042113.o14LDaOg089837@triton8.kn-bremen.de> Organization: home Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFT] Firefox 3.6 for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:42:01 -0000 In article you write: >Juergen Lock wrote: > >> In article <20100204001933.GA11586@bsdcrew.de> you write: >>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>Hash: SHA1 >>> >>>Howdy, >>> >>>We know that a lot people are waiting for Firefox 3.6, >>>but nox@ found a strange bug which is now solved. >>>The problem was that starting Firefox 3.6 with certain >>>addons installed was not possible. Now it looks like all >>>problems are solved and we can start a CFT. >>>[...] >> >> ..and in case anyone is wondering what the issue was, the problem was a >> filename handling change that basically caused all .xpt files (XPCOM type >> libraries) failing to load when there where symlinks in paths to one of >> them - like the ones from addons when /home is a symlink like it usually >> is on FreeBSD - and thus ff couldn't start. Here is the mozilla ticket: >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530793 > >Aha, und das alles klappte dei dem www/firefox3-devel bisher nicht? > >Krass. Ma gut, das ich nie Addonns verwende ;-) >[...] Do you also use no plugins? :) And yes, www/firefox3-devel was affected too (that was in fact the version where I first discovered the bug, just took me a `little' longer to find the actual cause because I wasn't familiar with the code at all...) Cheers, Juergen