From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 18 9:43:14 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 09:43:12 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wgate.com (mail.wgate.com [38.219.83.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D77137B402 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 09:43:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from jesup.eng.tvol.net ([10.32.2.26]) by mail.wgate.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id YMS2VJVH; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 12:43:15 -0500 Reply-To: Randell Jesup To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mozilla and 4.2-RELEASE References: <976986477.3a3ba16db730c@webmail.harmonic.co.il> <20001217051120.A20812@citusc.usc.edu> <20001217150650.B19311@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> <20001217131405.B47873@dragon.nuxi.com> <20001218084351.A6395@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> From: Randell Jesup Date: 18 Dec 2000 12:43:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: Szilveszter Adam's message of "Mon, 18 Dec 2000 08:43:51 +0100" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Szilveszter Adam writes: >Well, I am not a developer, so I can just speculate... earlier they had a >FreeBSD 4.0 test box, but most probably they stumbled upon some C++ problem >with our compiler and simply gave up. Later they brought in an old 2.2.8 >box, but that also was relegated to Mozilla-Test. I guess they tried that >because Netscape also uses a.out for their commercial branch on FreeBSD. >But later that one also disappeared. I've continued to build FreeBSD 4.1 mozilla's with no problems. I track mozilla's trunk on a daily basis and have not had any problems. I don't know what in 4.2 broke them, but I'd expect it's GCC/G++ related from the comments here. They don't normally pay a lot of attention to FreeBSD. After listening to someone rant at them at meetzilla about how their bug tracking mechanisms weren't useful and how supposedly FreeBSD people wouldn't want to report bugs using bugzilla (and would instead want to use freebsd's much better mechanisms), I'm not surprised. That person (from a local BSD users group I think) cost the freebsd community considerable respect among the mozilla developers and mozilla 3rd-party developers. (IMHO) When specific problems with FreeBSD have been reported people there have looked into them; one person even set up a machine and made it available to everyone else there for testing. That was a while ago, however, and I've seen few freebsd-specific bugs outside of PSM and java issues. -- Randell Jesup, Worldgate Communications, ex-Scala, ex-Amiga OS team ('88-94) rjesup@wgate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message