On 30 May Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > 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. Not sure I follow you. Will building firefox from ports on a 4.11R system really not build if you give a "portupgrade -rR firefox" ? Will this not automatically install any newer (needed) X libs?
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