From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Jul 11 01:50:33 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 4633E3E42 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2015 01:50:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ig0-x231.google.com (mail-ig0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 13186CE9 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2015 01:50:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: by iggp10 with SMTP id p10so46197214igg.0 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:50:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=g58yiXJACeq0MpfTsYOkeRuTv7DDAwIoQDw7a7r5+2k=; b=CJr/FMaYryCIOJKhM+TZUSU0BqQohG56hnLlVqieNSZJ6utBw8atASUXevITnMvxnz q/06LuBvriEX+K5D5ceXu6tqXKFsdg8RgLYvg4rjtrtDfKoc4k2gJxEl9D0LOW+syskz 1aLeTPNnH2eL7dIqh3lmI6TS1NyvZy8y/lYqtF/Ucdx52VGmgD8XQzFI4dcrsirpVPjH usc2jTN6ncCkE1xklEhyMlDON8eabumy5NnLbvj6GZXXU9C5AYw+3rwGAbcXHk8TyXJU 0Cmnm+cqvMvx2daPQwhaOmMwrRiZpXJGms+We9DWd9Tmq8DcYkPeulkwbkHbCNS7pZBG zMIw== X-Received: by 10.107.136.152 with SMTP id s24mr7677616ioi.165.1436579431429; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:50:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([50.243.6.59]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id p138sm7680959ioe.35.2015.07.10.18.50.29 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:50:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55A07665.6090600@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:50:29 -0600 From: jd1008 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Users Subject: Re: Building TB from source code References: <55A03950.6090209@gmail.com> <44h9pb39kw.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <44h9pb39kw.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> 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: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 01:50:33 -0000 On 07/10/2015 04:57 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > jd1008 writes: > >> 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. > Use the port? I always build it through the port. > >> I posted the same question to Fedora list and it has been >> so totally ignored, that I find it very interesting. > Does Fedora have a ports system? > I have tried to download all the sources from mozilla. I followed all the steps of building. At every step I would get an error that certain versions of some package(s) was/were needed; and such versions were too darned old for me to burden my machine with, as my machine had much more recent versions.