Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:25:46 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Brad Karp <bkarp@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux-gtk2 port too old for Linux Firefox 3 binary Message-ID: <20080625112546.67532sgj7m6753c4@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20080624164518.GF32086@boffin.cs.ucl.ac.uk> References: <20080624164518.GF32086@boffin.cs.ucl.ac.uk>
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Quoting Brad Karp <bkarp@cs.ucl.ac.uk> (from Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:45:18 +0100= ): > Greetings. > > 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? The problem is, that our default linux-base (fc4) does not come with =20 gtk 2.10. To switch to a more recent linux-base, we need linux 2.6 =20 emulation. In 7.0 is already a part of this, but it's not enable per =20 default. In 8-current we have a more complete linux 2.6 emulation =20 (it's in the testing phase). For the ports we (bsam@) is working at infrastructure to be able to =20 install fc4 or a more recent fedore version as linux-base (we have to =20 be able to support 2.4 and 2.6 emulation). The more recent version =20 would come with a more recent GTK version. Patches are available in =20 the archive of emulation@ in case you want to have a look at it. The =20 infrastructure looks promising, but is not yet committed. Bye, Alexander. --=20 Ad astra per aspera. (To the stars by aspiration.) http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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