Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:37:25 +0200 From: Idar Tollefsen <idart@performancedesign.no> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: www/firefox and www/thunderbird on STABLE/Alpha Message-ID: <416A8C95.8010505@performancedesign.no>
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Hello,
Both www/firefox and www/thunderbird have
.if ${ARCH} == "alpha" && ${OSVERSION} < 500035
IGNORE= "core dumps on alpha during post-build"
.endif
in their Makefiles. However, it's possible to install them by replacing the
IGNORE line with
USE_GCC= 3.4
or 3.3. 3.4 was chosen as it's now used, for instance, by x11-toolkits/gtkmm24
and similar ports.
There's one caveat tough. The required GCC version has to be built with
WANT_SHAREDLIBS=yes or the mentioned ports (at least Firefox) fails its linking
stage. At least it did so when I tried this with GCC 3.3.
I realize the downside of building shared libraries for a compiler that isn't
the platform's native compiler, but even so, I was wondering if there's a way to
say that a given port not only needs a certain version of GCC, but that it needs
that version to build with WANT_SHAREDLIBS, short of setting it up in pkgtools.conf?
If there is a way to do this, Firefox and Thunderbird could be updated to also
build on STABLE/Alpha. If not, I have at least provided a hint for the archives
for those interested.
Sincerely,
Idar Tollefsen
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