Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:58:32 -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: <45FC5678.40203@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <45FC4BF7.9060805@u.washington.edu> References: <20070317143636.LMPK2045.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03> <45FC4BF7.9060805@u.washington.edu>
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Garrett Cooper wrote: > 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 Update: So far I've fixed configure, but now I'm working my way through trying to update all the child make / dependency files. We'll see how long this takes.. -Garrett
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