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

[Francois Bissey]

On 30/08/12 19:22, Junqi Hu wrote:
>
> On 2012-8-30, at 上午11:14, François Bissey <francois.bissey@×××××××××××××.nz> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>
> Thank you for your comments.
>
> There is another problem I couldn't solve.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> $ emerge -av firefox
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "sys-devel/bsdmake".
> (dependency required by "virtual/pmake-0" [ebuild])
> (dependency required by "sys-freebsd/freebsd-mk-defs-9.0-r1" [ebuild])
> (dependency required by "dev-libs/libexecinfo-1.1" [ebuild])
> (dependency required by "www-client/firefox-14.0.1" [ebuild])
> (dependency required by "firefox" [argument])
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The ebuild for sys-devel/bsdmake is missing even while I use the script ecopy to try to generate it.
>

Not much that's very odd. the virtual/pmake ebuild goes this way:
RDEPEND="kernel_linux? ( sys-devel/pmake )
        kernel_SunOS? ( sys-devel/pmake )
        kernel_Darwin? ( sys-devel/bsdmake )"

So on OS X (darwin) you should have bsdmake. That's bugzilla material.

François