Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:50:29 -0600 From: jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Users <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Building TB from source code Message-ID: <55A07665.6090600@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44h9pb39kw.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <55A03950.6090209@gmail.com> <44h9pb39kw.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
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On 07/10/2015 04:57 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com> writes: > >> 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. > Use the port? I always build it through the port. > >> I posted the same question to Fedora list and it has been >> so totally ignored, that I find it very interesting. > Does Fedora have a ports system? > I have tried to download all the sources from mozilla. I followed all the steps of building. At every step I would get an error that certain versions of some package(s) was/were needed; and such versions were too darned old for me to burden my machine with, as my machine had much more recent versions.
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