From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jul 10 22:16:27 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D1DA997540 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 22:16:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x22a.google.com (mail-ie0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22a]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 28520D4D for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 22:16:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: by iebmu5 with SMTP id mu5so204289599ieb.1 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:16:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rxZFxEqqf0bTgDn80E83fo7AXcboSIATbZgFo96o4SY=; b=Qh+w1jO0PI6DNUczb+i7C04FdGtPbOtXl6vBjcBZGFzP07j6NcBOH0FOweVXGNzFT3 aMZqFNUQSl2PTNLqCGRehJZyho5RH7li2QmMMYqMlhNoyql0Fu2xhPoTDqH45sb29QVr cRPxS1REYLFNsNfbKDXw/u0u5l3TZ7rXu5u+mQZGvM0coSttlG2nnq2iSXq0rxIOhEm2 FsZXAELlaaXhkdyJtmwl427Du5EN+rAbOekg+r7ixLbQlLVWp5sEYev69qHCf7ruYZUR aaEaacyWDduAeeXkvalp3xOof5e+sQ6lGeME5HW2qPOgfRnM09vg/hdI0iiG+I3bWdqq WmhQ== X-Received: by 10.107.169.10 with SMTP id s10mr6996318ioe.138.1436566586655; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:16:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([50.243.6.59]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id e10sm472761igy.11.2015.07.10.15.16.25 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:16:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55A04438.7080107@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:16:24 -0600 From: jd1008 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building TB from source code References: <55A03950.6090209@gmail.com> <55A0424F.5070705@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <55A0424F.5070705@hiwaay.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 22:16:27 -0000 On 07/10/2015 04:07 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > On 07/10/15 16:36, jd1008 wrote: >> Has anyone been successful in building it from source code? >> Last time I tried, build failed because it required versions >> of packages that were of much older vintage than what was installed. >> Too many for me to recall. >> >> Need helpful hints, how-to's to accomplish this. >> >> I posted the same question to Fedora list and it has been >> so totally ignored, that I find it very interesting. > > Why do you want to build it from source ? I did that w/ Iceweb (sp?) > last August when I was trying to get this box running, took 5+ hours. > 2 weeks later did a pkg upgrade, took 30 sec. .... I've been on pkg > ever since (except for flash support, but no problema w/ that). > Why must you ask "why" ? How about "Because I want to" :) :) I also want to do that for FF.