Tue, 7 Apr 2009 (00:30 -0700 UTC) Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
On Apr 3, 2009, at 17:53, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Apr 2, 2009, at 18:21, Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote:
> On Apr 2, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 02:14:37AM -0700, Frank J. R. Hanstick said:
> >
> > > Upgrading Firefox-x11 resulted in the following error:
> > [...]
> > > In file included from nsNSSCleaner.h:127,
> > > from nsNSSCleaner.cpp:38:
> > > ../../../../dist/include/system_wrappers/certt.h:3:24: error:
> > > certt.h: No
> > > such file or directory
> >
> > That should be with the nss port, do you have that installed and at
> > version
> > 3.12? The current firefox-x11 (3.0.8_2) lists it as a dependency, so
> > it
> > should have been installed...
>
> Being dependent on nss-3,12 explains why it is not installing because
> nss-3.12 fails to install (ticket 18930) leaving me with nss-3.11.9_0.
> Shouldn't a failure to install nss-3.12 cause the Firefox-x11 to abort
> during configuration rather than build?
You can bring that up with the developers of firefox if you like. Sounds
like their configure script isn't properly detecting the required version
of nss.
It should be... It failed for me when I tried building against 3.11.9... of
course maybe that was when I was building 3.1b3... I don't remember... /shrug
I still don't know why nss isn't building for some people. In the mean time,
you can hopefully install firefox-x11-devel. It's not building on intel
because of an annoying API bug... but I'll hopefully have a fix for that soon
(see the xorg-devel mailing list if you are masochistic about the X11 header
hell).
After you closed the bug "#14901: firefox-x11 does not provide
file-selection browsers," I decided to upgrade. Thank you for fixing
that bug. It was over a year old by the time I finally filed it, and
you ficxed it within a day or so of being assigned the bug.
When I tried the new Portfile, I first ran uninstall firefox-x11.
Then I tried to install the new version. My
Firefox-x11 was so old that the configure stage failed on a number of
the required ports because of version. Some were two versions older
than configure needed. It did not give me an error about heimdal. Mine
was a 0.x version--way out of date. But the build failed on some of the
security stuff. I upgraded heimdal, cleaned firefox-x11, and started
over.
The next hurdle was nss/nspr. Both were up to date, and the files that
were showing the error were on the system. What was missing in the
--with-system version was an -I for the dirctory where macports stores
the headers. When I tried some hand compiling adding
-I/opt/local/include/nss, the build ran OK. However, there are too many
of those references to make that solution work (without knowing where
the gmake -I references are built.
I had another small glitch that resulted from one of the dependencies
having built even though one of its dependencies (pango) was outdated.
After wrangling for a very long time to get firefox-x11 to build because
it always stopped in either the nss or nspr part, I finally decided to
remove
--with-system-nspr \
--with-nspr-prefix=${prefix} \
--with-system-nss \
--with-nss-prefix=${prefix} \
from the Portfile, clean and retry. I got all the way into late stages
of desroot when it failed because a file it wanted to move into
the destroot already existed there.
% port destroot firefox-x11
---> Staging firefox-x11 into destroot
Error: Target org.macports.destroot returned: error copying
"/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/www/firefox-x11/files/share-applications-firefox.desktop"
to "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_www_firefox-x11/work/destroot/opt/local/share/applications/firefox.desktop": file already exists
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
(I retried this after cleaning and assuring that desroot was clear
before trying to install again.)
After a third try I gave up on the Macports way, pushd'ed to the build
directory and did a 'gmake install'
I know I broke the rules, but it's my personal machine, so I am not
concerned. Firefox works now fine as an X based browser--including
using the file browser.
--
Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English
Morehead State University Morehead, Kentucky
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