Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:58:22 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: firefox3 build fails on alpha Message-ID: <20080801145822.GC1356@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20080731222442.GA35346@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20080708120738.GA74833@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <20080708122352.GA76546@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <op.ud7arxvc9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <20080712225929.GA22401@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20080731222442.GA35346@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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Quoting Anton Shterenlikht, who wrote on Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:24:43PM +0100 .. > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:59:29AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > Quoting Jeremy Messenger, who wrote on Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 05:44:11PM -0500 .. > > > On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:23:52 -0500, Anton Shterenlikht > > > <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > > A followup. It seems xptcinvoke_freebsd_alpha.cpp is missing. It > > > > is used in Makefile: > > > > > > I think most of us don't have any alpha machine. You might have to create > > > patch for us. I think, the alpha support has been dropped so it's > > > pointless for us to work on alpha support. > > > > The latest release of FreeBSD supporting the Alpha platform port is > > RELENG_6. Anything newer no longer supports Alpha. > > I'm happy with RELENG_6 on alpha. Nice to hear that. Thing is, ports have not been built on -alpha for ages now. There is not even a working Alpha machine anymore in the FreeBSD.org cluster for ports folks to test on if they were inclined to do so. ports have always been tricky on alpha, given the limited # of people running FreeBSD on Alpha. With the Alpha port effectively dead, and the amount of work of the ports committers going into current releases and archs I do not have high hopes. > I did try to contact mozilla developers directly, but no reply so far. > I understand that mozilla developers put out the tar file. Perhaps the > port maintainers could alert the mozilla team about the missing files, > or maybe even get these 2 files. I'd be very greatful. ENOCLUE on this one. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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