Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 19:11:06 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building TB from source code Message-ID: <20150711191106.bca7e735.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <44io9qj1gg.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <55A03950.6090209@gmail.com> <55A05CFE.90608@columbus.rr.com> <55A0843A.9050806@gmail.com> <20150711045325.9eed25ae.freebsd@edvax.de> <44io9qj1gg.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
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On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 08:58:07 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> writes: > > > On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:49:30 -0600, jd1008 wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 07/10/2015 06:02 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> > On 07/10/15 17:29, 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. > >> > By TB I am thinking thunderbird...correct? > >> > > >> > Yes I build Thunderbird and firefox all the time using poudriere. > >> > > >> > Works for me. > >> Cool! > >> I wonder if you tried it on the TB or FF sources you downloaded directly > >> from mozilla.com??? > > > > Poudriere will use the sources from the FreeBSD ports collection. > > Which in the case of Firefox and Thunderbird, > will pull in the sources from mozilla.com. And probably add FreeBSD-specific patches. I typically rely on the sources published in the ports collection because they tend to "just work", even though they might be one or two minor version subnumbers behind the bleeding-edge Linux version. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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