From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 23 03:11:32 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AFB01065670 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:11:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9A898FC13 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:11:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0N3BN5Z069913; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:11:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:11:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:11:23 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20100123031123.GA26910@thought.org> References: <20100121210658.GA10757@thought.org> <20100121221929.6ceaba00.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100122001430.GC10775@thought.org> <20100122021557.f52bc107.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100122033309.GF10775@thought.org> <20100123000539.821635f9.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100123000539.821635f9.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, FH_DATE_PAST_20XX,URIBL_RHS_DOB autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ethic.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: need help with the last-two-ports! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:11:32 -0000 On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:05:39AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:33:09 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > surprised how many things depend on that nspr... wow. > > It seems to be because many other things depend on Netscape > (or the corresponding HTML renderer or who knows what); from > the port's description: > > Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides a > platform-neutral API for system level and > libc like functions. The API is used in the > Mozilla client, many of Netscape/AOL/iPlanet's > and other software offerings. > > So why port software complicatedly to FreeBSD when all > the OS-specific stuff can be abstracted by another port? :-) > It wasn't until I checked into the tests that I started to get a clue; and since i never checked into the code, I can't say that much. But if these functions were to be a kind of libc that compiled and ran Everywhere, these guys deserve five gold stars. > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php