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Date:      Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:27:08 -0400
From:      trypticon@SAFe-mail.net
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problem installing firefox
Message-ID:  <N1-_MW9GxZO@SAFe-mail.net>

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Its not there. Should i just re-install Xfree86-libraries?

-------- Original Message --------
From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Apparently from: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc: trypticon@SAFe-mail.net
Subject: Re: problem installing firefox
Date: 07 Oct 2004 10:31:14 -0400

> trypticon@SAFe-mail.net writes:
> 
> > trypticon@SAFe-mail.net writes:
> > 
> > > I'm having trouble installing firefox on freebsd-4.10. When i try to install it it gives me this error: 
> > > 
> > > /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lXcursor
> > > gmake[2]: *** [libgtkxtbin.so] Error 1
> > > gmake[2]: Leaving Directory '/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/mozilla
> > > /widget/src/gtkxtbin'
> > > gmake[1]: *** [tier_9] Error 2
> > > gmake[1]: Leaving Directory`/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/mozilla'
> > > gmake: *** [default] Error 2
> > > *** Error code 2
> > > 
> > > any help would be appreciated.
> > >
> > >Had you done a build before this? 
> > >It looks like the problem is in the build part, not the install.
> > >
> > >Are your ports up-to-date?  
> > >There have been some major changes in the port since the release of
> > >FreeBSD 4.10.
> > 
> > This is my first time installing firefox. I updated my ports yesterday and i tried again, but i still get the error. 
> 
> It builds fine for me.
> 
> It's looking for libXcursor.so, which is normally installed by the
> XFree86-libraries port into /usr/X11R6/lib (I assume it should be
> installed by the equivalent xorg port if you're using that, but
> XFree86 is the default on 4.10).  Check if you have that.
> 
> -- 
> Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
> 		http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/
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