Date: 17 Sep 2002 15:13:14 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Joe Kelsey <joek@mail.flyingcroc.net> Cc: jerry@thehutt.org, freebsd-gnome <freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/42870: mozilla-devel should be updated to 1.2a Message-ID: <1032289994.331.76.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <3D877DA3.6070003@mail.flyingcroc.net> References: <3D8775E9.4050409@mail.flyingcroc.net> <1032287836.331.66.camel@gyros.marcus com.com> <20020917184537.GA22391@nomad.thehutt.org> <1032288591.331.71.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <3D877DA3.6070003@mail.flyingcroc.net>
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On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 15:08, Joe Kelsey wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 14:45, Jerry A! wrote:
> >>Could you please give some thought as to how to name
> >>/usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla before you make the repo copy? For instance,
> >>should it be a symlink to /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla-${ver} or what?
> >>
> >>The reason I ask is b/c ports like flashplugin-mozilla and plugger break
> >>if /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla doesn't exist.
> >
> >
> >
> > I thought of keeping things in line with the way they are now. That is:
> >
> > ${X11BASE}/lib/mozilla --> mozilla-1.1
> > ${X11BASE}/lib/mozilla-devel --> mozilla-1.2a
> > ${X11BASE}/lib/mozilla-vendor --> mozilla-1.0.1
>
> www/flashplugin-mozilla/Makefile contains the line:
>
> do-install:
> @${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKSRC}/npflash.so
> ${X11BASE}/lib/mozilla/plugins
>
> which requires the mozilla directory to exist. It needs to change
> "/mozilla/" to something like "/$(MOZILLA_HOME)/", where MOZILLA_HOME is
> set in make.conf or something. The problem of plugins is a difficult
> one. www/flashplugin sets a variable TARGET_DIR in it's Makefile. I
> think that there is no real answer to doing this automatically without
> inventing a lot of make cruft.
This then begs the question of should I make this change now so close to
the release? I don't want things to ship out with a lot of popular
pieces in a broken state. While people might not agree with the Mozilla
naming scheme right now, the ports do function.
Joe
>
> /Joe
>
>
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