Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:31:33 -0453 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building TB from source code Message-ID: <55A0464E.5010007@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <55A04438.7080107@gmail.com> References: <55A03950.6090209@gmail.com> <55A0424F.5070705@hiwaay.net> <55A04438.7080107@gmail.com>
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On 07/10/15 17:22, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 07/10/2015 04:07 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> On 07/10/15 16:36, 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. >> >> Why do you want to build it from source ? I did that w/ Iceweb (sp?) >> last August when I was trying to get this box running, took 5+ hours. >> 2 weeks later did a pkg upgrade, took 30 sec. .... I've been on pkg >> ever since (except for flash support, but no problema w/ that). >> > Why must you ask "why" ? > > How about "Because I want to" :) :) > > I also want to do that for FF. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Sorry, just curious. I could imagine some good reasons, actually, optimizing for a particular gfx card, for example. I was just whining about the time involved for a large, complex recompile .... Carry on :-) !!!! -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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