Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:10:31 -0500 From: Brandon J. Wandersee <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Building TB from source code Message-ID: <86r3ob7u1k.fsf@WorkBox.Home> In-Reply-To: <20150711191106.bca7e735.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <55A03950.6090209@gmail.com> <55A05CFE.90608@columbus.rr.com> <55A0843A.9050806@gmail.com> <20150711045325.9eed25ae.freebsd@edvax.de> <44io9qj1gg.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <20150711191106.bca7e735.freebsd@edvax.de>
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>> > Poudriere will use the sources from the FreeBSD ports collection.
>>
>> Which in the case of Firefox and Thunderbird,
>> will pull in the sources from mozilla.com.
>
> And probably add FreeBSD-specific patches.
>
38 patches, to be precise.
I can't think of a single Unix-like OS (short of LFS) on which it is
regular practice to build and install using autotools and the upstream
Makefile. Debian, Arch, Gentoo, CRUX, Slackware, OpenSuSE, FreeBSD,
NetBSD, OpenBSD--in all cases, it's strongly recommended that the
system's native software management tools be used to build a package
that can be installed and tracked for easy updates, customization, and
removal.
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