Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 20:50:21 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 4.11-RELEASE install error Message-ID: <20050601185021.GA13222@lothlorien.nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNIEJMFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <20050530145901.GA1709@lothlorien.nagual.st> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNIEJMFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On 30 May Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > On 29 May Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > > > What is supplied with 4.11-release is old and a number of > > > utilities - like firefox - will not build on it anymore. > > > > I run two 4.11-stable machines here and both compile firefox from > > ports very fine still. I did not come across packages (yet) that > > did not compile on 4.11 I *know* they exist but they're not the > > 'popular' ones. > > > > He is talking 4.11-release, from the ISO, not 4.11-stable. > 4.11-release most definitely will not compile Firefox unless you use > the original firefox 1.0 code, which has a security hole in it. If > you cvsup the ports tree, it will update the firefox port to a later > version of firefox that will definitely not link in with the X > libraries installed off the 4.11-release ISO. Not sure I follow you. Will building firefox from ports on a 4.11R system really not build if you give a "portupgrade -rR firefox" ? Will this not automatically install any newer (needed) X libs? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11 ++ FreeBSD 5.3 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja
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