Firefox2 from pkgsrc on OpenBSD

["The masked-coder known as Randux" <randux%Safe-mail.net@localhost>]

Subject: Re: How to use on OpenBSD? (has Perl-5.8.8 in OBSD base)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:44:45 +0300

> The masked-coder known as Randux wrote:
> > ... and now firefox2 and sylpheed-claws (my main reasons for using pkgsrc 
> > on OpenBSD) have just crashed. 
> 
> Are you saying that firefox2 crashed? You either got rid of perl
> dependency or managed to build lang/perl. How you did this?
> 
> Last time I tried to build perl, it failed on
> 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/libperl/in/WRKSRCDIR ./miniperl
> 
> OpenBSD couldn't find libperl.so.
> 
> I resolved this problem but then I got DynaLoader failure at a later
> stage.
> -- 
> Alexander Nasonov
> http://nasonov.blogspot.com

Greetings, Alexander, and sorry for my late reply, I've been travelling on 
business. I also apologise to the group as I see there are quite a few emails 
on the topic that I must respond to, so if I write something out of order it's 
because I'm working my way backwards through the queue.

No, I couldn't get on with the FF build but Perl and most of the tools 
(autoconf, etc) all built properly.  I've decided to abandon using pkgsrc  on 
OpenBSD for now. Whilst on NetBSD it seems to work really nicely indeed, there 
are too many issues for me running it on OpenBSD. I'll try to build things by 
hand as much as possible. I'm not sure what to do about Firefox2, but I can 
live with 1.5 until a packkge becomes available. 

Cheers,
Rand