mozilla-dev fails to build

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 5, 2008, at 05:16, Daniel Oberhoff wrote:

> Ok, I rebuilt now,

Ok, good, that should ensure that you avoid some unexpected errors.

> and still get the same set of errors.

The errors you're seeing with the mozilla ports are, however,  
probably expected. Like I said, they're old and not maintained, so  
I'm not surprised they're broken. Apparently nobody else here has  
been interested enough in these ports to get them working again. If  
you're interested in these ports, you could see if you can figure out  
why they fail, and fix them.

> Am 30.12.2007 um 01:58 schrieb Daniel Oberhoff:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ok, yes, I had lots of those darwin_8 thingies. While deinstalling  
>> openssl macports just broke (it seems the whole ports system  
>> depended on openssl) so now I had to shoot it and reinstall, and  
>> lost interest along the way :o (other things where more  
>> interesting ^^). Anyhow, I wanted the mozilla-dev to build the  
>> mugshot tracker, for which there is no osx version yet, and it  
>> uses gecko-sdk, which again bases on the mozilla-sdk.
>> Once I get back on track with this I will update here if it works.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> Am 28.12.2007 um 16:44 schrieb 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.