From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 25 08:41:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE213106566C for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:41:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACC2C8FC17 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:41:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from bb.ipt.ru ([194.62.233.89]) by services.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1KBQZ1-000FyM-8E; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:41:15 +0400 To: Brad Karp References: <20080624164518.GF32086@boffin.cs.ucl.ac.uk> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:41:05 +0400 In-Reply-To: <20080624164518.GF32086@boffin.cs.ucl.ac.uk> (Brad Karp's message of "Tue\, 24 Jun 2008 17\:45\:18 +0100") Message-ID: <86057022@bb.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux-gtk2 port too old for Linux Firefox 3 binary X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:41:17 -0000 On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:45:18 +0100 Brad Karp wrote: > The version of GTK in FreeBSD's linux-gtk2 port is 2.6.10. > I (and others, I expect) tend to run the Linux build of Firefox, so > that I can use Linux releases of the Flash player. > The new Firefox 3 release fails when run against linux-gtk2 from the > GTK port, though; it complains that Firefox 3 requires at least GTK > 2.10. > The port's maintainer is listed as freebsd-emulation. Might someone > who tends this port be up for updating the port to bring GTK 2.10 or > newer into linux-gtk2? Well, this is not just one-port-issue. New linux-gtk2 needs linux 2.6 emulation. Most of the needed functions are merged from 8-CURRENT to 7-STABLE (note: 7.0-RELEASE won't fit). Some work to introduce FEDORA-8 ports was done (please, search archives for emulation@ ML). Those patches may be stale though but you may give it a try and report back. Thanks. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve