Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:08:31 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mozilla -is this port ever going to be fixed? Message-ID: <45FC910F.6050401@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <45FC5678.40203@u.washington.edu> References: <20070317143636.LMPK2045.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03> <45FC4BF7.9060805@u.washington.edu> <45FC5678.40203@u.washington.edu>
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Garrett Cooper wrote: > Garrett Cooper wrote: >> Vizion wrote: >>>>>> They will? Why? >>>>>> While there's no reason to think they want to gratuitously >>>>>> create bad feelings, FreeBSD machines are a small fraction of the >>>>>> current (and potential) user base. They could blow off FreeBSD - >>>>>> heck, *BSD - first thing tomorrow and not notice. >>>>>> OpenOffice.Org is under no obligation to FreeBSD, or its users, >>>>>> whatsoever. Of course ... if you want to step up and contribute >>>>>> patches (or pay someone to do so) then this will get corrected. >>>>>> Welcome to the underside of open source software. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Robert Huff >>>>> What about the Seamonkey headers break OpenOffice though? >>>> Sheesh, the >>>>> OpenOffice people should know that it's an unsupported >>>> browser and bad >>>>> to have sitting around on a machine for security reasons >>>> (riddled with >>>>> security bugs). >>>>> >>>>> Provide me with the perfunctory necessary patches and >>>> stuff, and I'll >>>>> give compiling it a go with Seamonkey's headers. >>>>> >>>>> -Garrett >>>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't appear that mozilla actually >>>> needs to be installed for OOo-2.x-devel and it appears that instead >>>> it just automatically drags in mozilla off the web and compiles >>>> portions of OOo specifically using mozilla's headers. >>>> >>>> Either way I'm trying a compile right now and will hopefully get >>>> through without a hitch (even though I'm getting a bit sort on disk >>>> space =\..). >>>> >>>> -Garrett >>> >>> Hi Garrett >>> Just want to say how much I appreciate what you are doing >>> >>> David >> >> David, >> You can also build Ooo with Firefox headers if you like.. it >> requires passing in --with-system-mozilla to configure for Oo. >> Cheers, >> -Garrett > > Update: > > So far I've fixed configure, but now I'm working my way through trying > to update all the child make / dependency files. We'll see how long this > takes.. > > -Garrett I'm going to stall my work on this (fixing OO.o) until next weekend because I have some work items to attend to. -Garrett
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