Re: [gentoo-alt] how to compile firefox on Mac Os X 10.8

[François Bissey]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:56:45 Junqi Hu wrote:
> The second problem has been solved by  the script  ecopy in
> $EPREFIX/usr/portage/scripts.
> On 2012-8-30, at 上午5:55, junqihu <junqihu@××.com> wrote:
> > Hi, all!
> >
> > I'm a newbie on using Mac OS X and gentoo prefix. Hence, I have many
> > problems arised in using them to resolve. One of them  is how to compile
> > firefox by gentoo prefix, although I know  that there is a package named
> > firefox for mac on mozilla's project page.
> >
> > Ok, let's see what happened?
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --
> >
> > $ emerge -av firefox
> >
> > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> >
> > Calculating dependencies... done!
> >
> > The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
> > #required by www-client/firefox-14.0.1, required by firefox (argument)
> > =x11-libs/cairo-1.12.2-r3 X
> > #required by www-client/firefox-14.0.1, required by firefox (argument)
> >
> >> =x11-libs/pango-1.30.1 X
> >
> > #required by www-client/firefox-14.0.1, required by firefox (argument)
> >
> >> =media-libs/libpng-1.5.12 apng
> >
> > Use --autounmask-write to write changes to config files (honoring
> > CONFIG_PROTECT).
> >
> > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=sys-apps/dbus-1.6.2".
> > (dependency required by "dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.100" [ebuild])
> > (dependency required by "www-client/firefox-14.0.1[dbus]" [ebuild])
> > (dependency required by "firefox" [argument])
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --
> >
> > The first question, I face to, is whether USE flag X should be select,
> > because X11 for mac have been separated from Mac OS X  since Mountain
> > Lion. In fact, I have replaced USE Flag X by aqua in
> > $EPREFIX/etc/make.conf.
> >
> > Obviously, without proper ebuild on dbus is another question. Same problem
> > also raised on installing the package, app-text/xdvipdfmx, when USE flag
> > xetex is chosen for app-text/texlive. Maybe, the procedure on ebuild
> > transition from gentoo-portage to gentoo-portage-prefix should be
> > mentioned.
> >
> > Anyone could help me?

Well, we are missing an ebuild for dbus-1.6.2 but not dbus full stop.
The ebuild for dbus-glib-0.100 shouldn't technically be in the tree since one
of its dependency isn't but that kind of check is a lot of work.
Try masking (etc/portage/package.mask) =dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.100
may be firefox will be happy with dbus-glib-0.98.

Francois