From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 2 09:18:29 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 82B2416A41C for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:18:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 077C243D55 for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:18:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [82.41.37.55] ([82.41.37.55]) by smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:19:06 +0100 Message-ID: <429ECEE2.7040202@dial.pipex.com> Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 10:18:26 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050530 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dick Hoogendijk References: <20050530145901.GA1709@lothlorien.nagual.st> <20050601185021.GA13222@lothlorien.nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <20050601185021.GA13222@lothlorien.nagual.st> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Jun 2005 09:19:06.0348 (UTC) FILETIME=[201AFAC0:01C56754] Cc: freebsd-questions 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: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:18:29 -0000 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