From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 14 06:44:10 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C54FA16A4CE for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 06:44:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from titan.open-networks.net (dsl-202-173-176-254.qld.westnet.com.au [202.173.176.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB58E43D2F for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 06:44:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from timothy@open-networks.net) Received: from [192.168.1.200] (unknown [192.168.1.1]) by titan.open-networks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF2775B4; Sat, 14 May 2005 16:44:07 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <42859E37.1080100@open-networks.net> Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 16:44:07 +1000 From: Timothy Smith User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041023) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Zbyslaw References: <42832E02.2090003@open-networks.net> <42837807.2090407@dial.pipex.com> <42837E15.9020302@dial.pipex.com> <4283CF69.8010005@open-networks.net> <4284D3D6.4030409@dial.pipex.com> <42851CCB.8030603@open-networks.net> <428537EF.1040306@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <428537EF.1040306@dial.pipex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't build firefox 1.0.4 on 4.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 06:44:10 -0000 Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Timothy Smith wrote: > >> ./configure gets >> >> *** The libIDL-config script installed by libIDL could not be found >> *** If libIDL was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in >> *** your path, or set the LIBIDL_CONFIG environment variable to the >> *** full path to libIDL-config. >> checking for orbit-config... no >> configure: error: libIDL not found. >> libIDL 0.6.3 or higher is required. > > > [and ...] > >> %locate libIDL-config-2 >> /usr/local/bin/libIDL-config-2 >> %which make >> /usr/bin/make >> %ls -lsa `which make` >> 224 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 206736 May 26 2004 /usr/bin/make >> > That looks right. (Btw "/usr/local/bin/libIDL-config was installed by > package ORBit-0.5.17_2" and that doesn't appear to be a dependency of > firefox's. I think the message from firefox install is just confusing > the issue and it is libIDL-config-2 that's required). > > More obvious questions. You are doing the firefox install as root and > root does have /usr/local/bin/ in it's path and libIDL-config-2 is > executable? As root check with: "which libIDL-config-2". > > Just to confirm it working, I tried just configuring firefox and got: > > checking for libIDL-2.0 >= 0.8.0... yes > checking LIBIDL_CFLAGS... -I/usr/local/include/libIDL-2.0 > -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include > checking LIBIDL_LIBS... -L/usr/local/lib -lIDL-2 > > I'm not sure what else to suggest. make clean in firefox and try > making again. > > --Alex > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > i wasn't doing ./configure as root, doing it as root and it's found libIDL-config without a problem, however i've runinto something else now make halts at "Makefile", line 386: Missing dependency operator Error expanding embedded variable. note there's a few other missing dependency operator msg's above that a quick look in the make file see's this at line 386 # Hack to generate xpidl Makefile ifneq ($(BUILD_MODULES),all)