Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 10:18:26 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 4.11-RELEASE install error Message-ID: <429ECEE2.7040202@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <20050601185021.GA13222@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20050530145901.GA1709@lothlorien.nagual.st> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNIEJMFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <20050601185021.GA13222@lothlorien.nagual.st>
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Dick Hoogendijk wrote: >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? > > > If you have cvsup'ed your source tree and give portupgrade the options you specify then it will build just fine. IIUC, it's only a problem if you don't run cvsup and don't do the portupgrade "correctly" which many less experienced users might try to do having just installed from the CD. --Alex
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