mozilla-dev fails to build

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 28, 2007, at 02:08, Daniel Oberhoff wrote:

> I can't get mozilla-dev built. It gives lots and lots of errors. I  
> started fixing some, but after an while I kinda though I'd first  
> ask if anyone has succeeded with it before, so that maybe it's just  
> a local misconfiguration. Among the things I fixed so far are:
>
> 1) some of the headers of the package confuse signal.h (they  
> #define some things that mess up signal.h) so I had to move  
> signal.h to the top of the include list in those cases.
>
> 2) the interface to freetype is broken. the mozilla-dev uses  
> funtion pointers with non-const arguments, while ft2 seems to  
> expect them to be with const arguments (moveto, lineto,  
> cubicto...), so I added const qualifiers in the correesponding  
> function declarations.
>
> another thing I didn't fix yet is NSOID being undefined in lots of  
> places. I just couldn't find where it is defined. This only shows  
> btw. when there is an array of NSOID defined. The compiler merilly  
> compiles pointer statements (NSOID *).
>
> My system is osx leopard on a core2duo mbp. I took over the  
> macports tree from my tiger installation, but that had no  
> problems...so far :). I recently did selfupdate (to 1.6) and  
> upgrade outdated successfully.

mozilla and mozilla-devel ports are not being maintained, and appear  
to be old. Why do you want to install mozilla 1.8b1?

Migrating a MacPorts tree from Tiger to Leopard (or across any major  
OS release version, or from one architecture processor to another)  
can be problematic. In the case of moving from Tiger to Leopard, you  
probably still have a lot of ports installed that have the "darwin_8"  
variant. Examine "port installed" to see. You should forcibly  
uninstall each of those (sudo port -f uninstall foo) (making note of  
which other variants you selected), then reinstall them (sudo port  
install foo +whatever), so they lose the now-inappropriate darwin_8  
variant and gain (if necessary) the darwin_9 variant.