From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jul 10 22:25:34 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2DC7997865 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 22:25:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A4DE210B7 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 22:25:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-207-98-175-216.knology.net [207.98.175.216] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t6AMPV3c024267 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:25:32 -0500 Message-ID: <55A0464E.5010007@hiwaay.net> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:31:33 -0453 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building TB from source code References: <55A03950.6090209@gmail.com> <55A0424F.5070705@hiwaay.net> <55A04438.7080107@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55A04438.7080107@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 22:25:34 -0000 On 07/10/15 17:22, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 07/10/2015 04:07 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> On 07/10/15 16:36, jd1008 wrote: >>> Has anyone been successful in building it from source code? >>> Last time I tried, build failed because it required versions >>> of packages that were of much older vintage than what was installed. >>> Too many for me to recall. >>> >>> Need helpful hints, how-to's to accomplish this. >>> >>> I posted the same question to Fedora list and it has been >>> so totally ignored, that I find it very interesting. >> >> Why do you want to build it from source ? I did that w/ Iceweb (sp?) >> last August when I was trying to get this box running, took 5+ hours. >> 2 weeks later did a pkg upgrade, took 30 sec. .... I've been on pkg >> ever since (except for flash support, but no problema w/ that). >> > Why must you ask "why" ? > > How about "Because I want to" :) :) > > I also want to do that for FF. > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > Sorry, just curious. I could imagine some good reasons, actually, optimizing for a particular gfx card, for example. I was just whining about the time involved for a large, complex recompile .... Carry on :-) !!!! -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.