Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:20:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/35907: Attempts to build mozilla fail (on current?) Message-ID: <200204111520.g3BFK3d68497@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/35907; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@gilead.acs.rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/35907: Attempts to build mozilla fail (on current?) Date: 11 Apr 2002 12:13:27 -0300 On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 01:55, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 12:14 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 23:42, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > >> I don't know what's wrong, but I've spent much more than 24 hours > >> trying to rebuild things in a few dozen different ways, and mozilla > >> just isn't worth that much of my time. > > > > I'll keep looking into it. Working in tech support by day gives > > me an undying need to solve problems ;-}. Thanks for the update. > > Well, I'm also driven to get to the bottom of things which "make no > sense" to me. If everyone was reporting this problem, then I probably > wouldn't have spent any significant time on it myself, because I don't > really need mozilla for anything. However, it drove me *nuts* that > this was consistently happening to me, and yet no one else. > > So, I spent yet another day building, rebooting, removing, adding, > rearranging, installing, recompiling, and other things. I have now > successfully rebuilt mozilla. You are not going to believe what the > catalyst is for my problems. > > I use bash as my shell under root. My .login file checks if > /usr/local/bin/bash exists, and if so it switches the login from > csh to bash. This probably effects a few other things in my > environment (such as my PATH setting). I have not pinned down the > EXACT cause of the problem, but if I change my .login file so it > does not switch to bash, then I can build mozilla. Mozilla is the > only port which needs to be build "from csh" instead of from bash. > > Now that I seem to have *some* answer for this mystery, maybe I can > finally catch up on my sleep! Later I'll figure out whether it's > bash per se, or if it's something else in the environment which > touches off the problem. If it isn't bash vs csh, then I expect it > is a difference in the PATH setting (probably no /usr/local/sbin > in PATH when I run under bash). I was just thinking this morning that it might be an environment variable common to both your -stable and -current machines. In any event, I'm glad you're closer to tracking down the issue. Joe > > --- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.acs.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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