From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 1 18:50:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29E6616A41C for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:50:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81A3343D4C for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:50:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by nagual.st with local; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:50:21 +0200 Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 20:50:21 +0200 To: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20050601185021.GA13222@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20050530145901.GA1709@lothlorien.nagual.st> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i From: Dick Hoogendijk Subject: Re: 4.11-RELEASE install error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:50:28 -0000 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