firefox-x11 & matplotlib

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Mar 31, 2010, at 13:57, Pau wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> sorry for the spamming... I have too many questions because I am in
> the process of migrating to macosx after many years of OpenBSD
> 
> I have seen that firefox-x11 fails at building when getting to
> xulrunner, as in this ticket:
> 
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/21477
> 
> Six months ago jeremyhu said that "You will need to have some patience
> and let the upstream devs work on the problem"

Why don't you just use the i386 version of firefox?

> I was wondering whether there has been some progress or what the plans are.

You'll have to ask the firefox developers themselves.  I think darwin/x86_64 is slated for 3.7, but I'm not positive.  I suspect we should "just work" once that is done, but we'll probably need some build system fixes as well.