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Date:      Thu, 19 May 2005 07:21:23 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com>
To:        Timothy Smith <timothy@open-networks.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: can't build firefox 1.0.4 on 4.10
Message-ID:  <20050519072016.B62516@mail.goinet.com>
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You could install portmanager, use portmanager -u and do excludes on ports 
that you suspect might break something else if upgraded.

That, and a portmanager -s will give you a nice view of the state of your 
ports tree.  Perhaps you'll see something you hadn't caught before?

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Timothy Smith wrote:

> albi wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 19 May 2005 19:54:07 +1000
>> Timothy Smith <timothy@open-networks.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>> a very wild guess, perhaps you made your /tmp nosuid and noexec, and now
>>>> compilation fails because of that ?
>>>> 
>>>> (for me firefox compiled fine from ports some days ago, firefox-1.0.4,1)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> drwxrwxrwt   9 root  wheel     1536 May 19 19:36 tmp
>>> 
>>> nope. keep in mind everyone that this is 4.10
>>> there's nothing in /tmp that could be causing this i'm sure. is there 
>>> anything i can do to make sure my ports and src tree's are clean besides 
>>> make clean?
>>> 
>> 
>> well, if your /tmp was mounted nosuid and noexec then a make world
>> would also fail
>> 
>> i have only 5.4-p1 systems in use (and not really time right now to
>> install 4.10 to try to reproduce this)
>> 
>> did you do a :
>> portsclean -C
>> portsclean -D
>> portupgrade -arvy
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> isnt' there some upgrade guide i should be reading before doing -ar ? this 
> system is very  important, and while it doesn't matter if firefox is broken 
> for the moment, breaking something like gnome would be a total disaster
>
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