Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:13:43 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mozilla -is this port ever going to be fixed? Message-ID: <45FC4BF7.9060805@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070317143636.LMPK2045.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03> References: <20070317143636.LMPK2045.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03>
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Vizion wrote:
>>>> They will? Why?
>>>> While there's no reason to think they want to gratuitously
>>>> create bad feelings, FreeBSD machines are a small fraction of the
>>>> current (and potential) user base. They could blow off FreeBSD -
>>>> heck, *BSD - first thing tomorrow and not notice.
>>>> OpenOffice.Org is under no obligation to FreeBSD, or its users,
>>>> whatsoever. Of course ... if you want to step up and contribute
>>>> patches (or pay someone to do so) then this will get corrected.
>>>> Welcome to the underside of open source software.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Robert Huff
>>> What about the Seamonkey headers break OpenOffice though?
>> Sheesh, the
>>> OpenOffice people should know that it's an unsupported
>> browser and bad
>>> to have sitting around on a machine for security reasons
>> (riddled with
>>> security bugs).
>>>
>>> Provide me with the perfunctory necessary patches and
>> stuff, and I'll
>>> give compiling it a go with Seamonkey's headers.
>>>
>>> -Garrett
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't appear that mozilla actually
>> needs to be installed for OOo-2.x-devel and it appears that
>> instead it
>> just automatically drags in mozilla off the web and compiles
>> portions of
>> OOo specifically using mozilla's headers.
>>
>> Either way I'm trying a compile right now and will hopefully
>> get through
>> without a hitch (even though I'm getting a bit sort on disk
>> space =\..).
>>
>> -Garrett
>
> Hi Garrett
> Just want to say how much I appreciate what you are doing
>
> David
David,
You can also build Ooo with Firefox headers if you like.. it
requires passing in --with-system-mozilla to configure for Oo.
Cheers,
-Garrett
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