Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 14:49:23 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Dick Hoogendijk" <dick@nagual.st>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: 4.11-RELEASE install error Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNIEJMFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050530145901.GA1709@lothlorien.nagual.st>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Dick > Hoogendijk > Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 7:59 AM > To: freebsd-questions > Subject: Re: 4.11-RELEASE install error > > > On 29 May Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > What is supplied with 4.11-release is old and a number of utilities - > > like firefox - will not build on it anymore. > > I run two 4.11-stable machines here and both compile firefox from ports > very fine still. > I did not come across packages (yet) that did not compile on 4.11 > I *know* they exist but they're not the 'popular' ones. > He is talking 4.11-release, from the ISO, not 4.11-stable. 4.11-release most definitely will not compile Firefox unless you use the original firefox 1.0 code, which has a security hole in it. If you cvsup the ports tree, it will update the firefox port to a later version of firefox that will definitely not link in with the X libraries installed off the 4.11-release ISO. Ted
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