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Date:      Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:31:09 +1300
From:      Ben Washington-Yule <benwy_01@yahoo.com.au>
To:        Adrien Reboisson <adrien-reboisson@astase.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mozilla installation - XFree86 Makefile broken  ?
Message-ID:  <417F78ED.6090902@yahoo.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <003d01c4bc0e$60222130$0200a8c0@ASTASEADRFIX>
References:  <003d01c4bc0e$60222130$0200a8c0@ASTASEADRFIX>

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Adrien Reboisson wrote:

> Hi all !
>
> I'm new to freeBSD and I've a question about mozilla installation.
>
> I want to install mozilla. I use :
>
> su
> cd /usr/ports/www/mozilla
> make
>
> Files begin to be downloaded on my computer, all seems to be OK... But 
> suddenly the process is stopped :
>
> ===> Configuring for XFree86-fontScalable-4.4.0_1
> (cd 
> /usr/ports/x11-fonts/XFree86-4-fontScalable/work/xc/fonts/encodings && 
> imake -DUseInstalled -DProjectRoot=/usr/X11R6 
> -I/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config -DTOPDIR=../../.. -DCURDIR=.; make 
> Makefiles ; make includes ; make depend)
> "Makefile", line 664: Missing dependency operator
> "Makefile", line 666: Missing dependency operator
> "Makefile", line 667: Missing dependency operator
> "Makefile", line 668: Missing dependency operator
> "Makefile", line 669: Missing dependency operator
> "Makefile", line 671: Missing dependency operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/XFree86-4-fontScalable.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/pango.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/www/mozilla.
>
>
> A makefile seems to be broken. I tried to install GAIM, for instance, 
> with the same result, since it seems to require the 
> "XFree86-fontScalable-4.4.0_1" which use the corrupted makefile.
>
> My question is very simple : what should I do ?
>
> Thank you very much !
>
> Regards,
>
> A.R
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For a quick fix you could try "pkg_add -r XFree86-fontScalable", this 
will download and install the pre-compiled binary. When was the last 
time you CVSup'd?

- Ben



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