From owner-freebsd-gnome Thu Apr 11 18:10: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FD9937B404 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:10:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3C1A3X95199; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:10:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:10:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200204120110.g3C1A3X95199@freefall.freebsd.org> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Garance A Drosehn Subject: Re: ports/35907: Attempts to build mozilla fail (on current?) Reply-To: Garance A Drosehn Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The following reply was made to PR ports/35907; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Garance A Drosehn To: Joe Marcus Clarke Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/35907: Attempts to build mozilla fail (on current?) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 21:01:03 -0400 On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 12:55 AM, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > 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. My .bashrc file defines an environment variable called PLATFORM (and it has defined it for many years now...). I use the same basic config files and scripts on various versions of six different OS's, and I use this variable to govern how various scripts behave on the different platforms. If I remove that one environment variable, mozilla will build for me under bash. The actual "freebsd port" files do not reference PLATFORM at all, so I seem to be tripping over something in mozilla itself. I did grep thru mozilla source files and found a number of files which use something called PLATFORM. Looking at the logfiles of the two compiles (working and non-working), it looks like some of these references will get the value mozilla builds, and other references get the value defined in my .bashrc. So, it looks like this is not something that needs to be fixed in the freebsd port. I probably should pursue this with the mozilla folks, but for the moment I think I'll just change the name of that variable in my .bashrc & related scripts. Maybe PLATFORM_asSetIn_bAshRc_for_GarancE_ScriPts -- that shouldn't conflict with anything! Apologies for dragging you along on my wild goose chase! Thanks for all the replies. --- 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