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Date:      Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:45:20 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Build of Mozilla failed
Message-ID:  <1074811520.774.114.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <200401212115.i0LLFO8o051339@moolenaar.net>
References:  <200401212115.i0LLFO8o051339@moolenaar.net>

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On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 16:15, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> I tried to build Mozilla 1.6 with the port in /usr/ports/www/mozilla.
> This failed with this message:
>=20
> checking for gmake... /usr/local/bin/gmake
> configure: error: GNU Make 3.78 or higher is required to build Mozilla.
> =3D=3D=3D>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
> Please report the problem to gnome@FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach th=
e
> "/usr/ports/www/mozilla/work/mozilla/config.log" including the output of =
the
> failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to provide an
> overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls /var/db/pk=
g`).
> *** Error code 1
>=20
> Looks like a dependency is missing.  I build /usr/ports/devel/gmake
> (version 3.80) and then it continued.

Running portupgrade -ra before installing new ports can really help
eliminate problems like this.  Or, I've been told, using portinstall -N
<portname> when installing new ports also takes care of problems such as
this.

>=20
> % uname -a
> FreeBSD masaka.moolenaar.net 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #1: Mon Oct =
27 21:44:22 CET 2003     mool@masaka.moolenaar.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/MAS=
AKA  i386
>=20
> BTW: It's not easy to decide which version to build.  Isn't there some
> documentation about what the advantages of each version are?  Esp. for
> the Linux versions.

The mozilla* ports themselves are pretty straightforward.  mozilla is
the latest stable release whereas mozilla-devel is the latest
bleeding-edge release (currently obsolete until 1.7a comes out).  These
are native FreeBSD browsers, and as such, may not support all of the
plug-ins that their Linux counterparts do.

Therefore, if you need some of the more advanced Linux plug-ins with
your browser, you should consider installing the Linux versions of
Mozilla or Netscape 7.

Joe

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