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Date:      Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:56:08 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Howard Goldstein <hg@queue.to>,  ajtiM <lumiwa@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, 	  gecko@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1
Message-ID:  <44vdkhe36f.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <44ws4yy06a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> (Lowell Gilbert's message of "Thu\, 20 Aug 2009 11\:28\:29 -0400")
References:  <200908142121.51522.lumiwa@gmail.com> <4A8D61C6.3040408@queue.to> <44ws4yy06a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> writes:

> Howard Goldstein <hg@queue.to> writes:
>
>> It's like the cat dragged in firefox2 despite use of 3.5 for actual
>> browsing :(  Is there a good way to resolve these dependencies through
>> firefox3 or 3.5 short of ditching gnome?
>
> Yeah, it's really from the gecko handling.  According to
> Mk/bsd.gecko.mk, I think you could add something like the following to
> make.conf to do what you need:
>
> USE_GECKO= firefox3<->firefox

But it doesn't work, and neither does the formulat actually given in the
makefile.  From checkin comments a few months back, I think this
capability is on hold waiting for xulrunner 1.9.  Don't quote me on
that, though; I don't quite understand some of the mechanisms in use.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/



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