firefox-x11 & matplotlib

Pau vim.unix at googlemail.com
Fri Apr 9 14:48:10 PDT 2010


Hello,

I would really love to have firefox running on x11... but xulrunner is
still giving trouble after a selfupdate and outdated and I still do
not know how to install the i386 version...

Any help will be apprecited. Thanks,

Pau

2010/4/4 Pau <vim.unix at googlemail.com>:
> PS: It seems that you are doing it anyway in the Portfile:
>
> 112     # Force 32-bit, inline-asm
> 113     if {$build_arch == "x86_64"} {
> 114         configure.build_arch i386
> 115     } elseif {$build_arch == "ppc64"} {
> 116         configure.build_arch ppc
> 117     }
>
> aren't you? Then why isn't it compiling?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pau
>
> 2010/4/4 Pau <vim.unix at googlemail.com>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> how can I tell port to use the i386 version? I didn't find it under variants.
>>
>> And won't it mess up the configuration if I change the defaults of macports?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Pau
>>
>> 2010/4/4 Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at macports.org>:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>


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