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Date:      Sat,  5 Jul 2008 16:47:29 +0000 (UTC)
From:      dfeustel@mindspring.com
To:        Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com>
Cc:        Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox 3 for FreeBSD 7.0 release
Message-ID:  <20080705164729.6CA138FC1A@mx1.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <486FA1E0.3040200@gmail.com>

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On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 07:31:28PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> dfeustel@mindspring.com wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 06:12:15PM +0200, Mel wrote:
>>   
>>> On Saturday 05 July 2008 17:56:00 dfeustel@mindspring.com wrote:
>>>     
>>>> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 04:40:35PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 02:27:42PM +0000, dfeustel@mindspring.com 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>         
>>>>>> I downloaded the firefox*gz file from devel but it doesn't make for
>>>>>> 64-bit.  Is Firefox 3 available for 64-bit AMD FreeBSD 7.0?
>>>>>>           
>>>>> It builds fine from ports on amd64 7-STABLE. Use the port www/firefox3.
>>>>>
>>>>> Roland
>>>>>         
>>>> I'm running 7.0-release. I ran portsnap and then porsnap extract.
>>>> Then I cd'd to the firefox3 subdirectory and ran make. Make aborted with
>>>> the message that it could not find -lgio-2.0. I checked the Freebsd
>>>> ports tree and found gio-2.16. I downloaded it and ran make, but that
>>>> make aborted with the same message as the make of firefox3.
>>>>       
>>> Your gnome2 is outof sync. Read:
>>> /usr/bin/less -p 20080323 /usr/ports/UPDATING
>>> /usr/bin/less -p 20080630 /usr/ports/UPDATING
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Mel
>>>     
>>
>> Unfortunately there is no subdirectory /usr/ports/UPDATING on my system.
>> _______________________________________________
>
> UPDATING is not a directory, it is a text file in /usr/ports, and if you 
> are missing it, something went terribly wrong when you fetched the ports 
> tree.
> _______________________________________________

/usr/ports/UPDATING is not shown by ls.  My original install of the
ports tree was from the 7.0 release on DVD.  Then today I ran portsnap
and portsnap extract. portsnap extract reported 5 new ports. How to find
out their names?

Thanks.



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