USE_GECKO=firefox and firefox3

[Naram Qashat]

Norberto Meijome wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have firefox3 installed. my make.conf shows USE_GECKO=firefox.
> 
> When I try to install any port (in particular today, the latest eclipse 3.3.2 )
> which uses USE_GECKO, www/firefox is pulled into the dependencies, rather tha
> firefox3.
> 
> I use portupgrade to launch the eclipse upgrade ( portupgrade -p eclipse ) ,
> and my /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf contains the following relevant entries:
> 
> 
>  ALT_PKGDEP = {
>     'www/mozilla' => 'www/firefox3',
>     'www/firefox' => 'www/firefox3',
>     'firefox-2*' => 'firefox-3*',
>     'firefox' => 'firefox3',
> [...]
> }
> 

As far as I can tell, from having this problem with the VLC Firefox plugin after 
the FF3 release, you need to use WITH_GECKO=xulrunner instead of firefox or 
firefox3.  Of course, that will only work if the eclipse port has xulrunner in 
the list for USE_GECKO and isn't pulling in the old bsd.gecko.mk from the 
mozilla folder.

The reason for that is that after Firefox 2, the Mozilla team moved all the 
stuff for building into xulrunner, as Firefox 3 doesn't have a firefox3-config 
like Firefox 2 had firefox-config.  I don't use eclipse, so I can't comment if 
changing it so it uses xulrunner will work, but it's worth a shot.

Naram Qashat

> still, no luck, ffox 2 gets pulled in.
> 
> should Mk/bsd.gecko.mk have support for firefox3 ? Is there any solution,other
> than deinstalling ffox3, install ffox2, install eclipse, and then replace ffox2
> with 3 ? 
> 
>  ( I *suspect* that portupgrade -o {ffox something} {ffox other} eclipse would
> do , but not entirely sure how it works....
> 
> Thanks for any help!!
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