problem installing firefox

[Lowell Gilbert]

trypticon at SAFe-mail.net writes:

> trypticon at SAFe-mail.net writes:
> 
> > I'm having trouble installing firefox on freebsd-4.10. When i try to install it it gives me this error: 
> > 
> > /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lXcursor
> > gmake[2]: *** [libgtkxtbin.so] Error 1
> > gmake[2]: Leaving Directory '/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/mozilla
> > /widget/src/gtkxtbin'
> > gmake[1]: *** [tier_9] Error 2
> > gmake[1]: Leaving Directory`/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/mozilla'
> > gmake: *** [default] Error 2
> > *** Error code 2
> > 
> > any help would be appreciated.
> >
> >Had you done a build before this? 
> >It looks like the problem is in the build part, not the install.
> >
> >Are your ports up-to-date?  
> >There have been some major changes in the port since the release of
> >FreeBSD 4.10.
> 
> This is my first time installing firefox. I updated my ports yesterday and i tried again, but i still get the error. 

It builds fine for me.

It's looking for libXcursor.so, which is normally installed by the
XFree86-libraries port into /usr/X11R6/lib (I assume it should be
installed by the equivalent xorg port if you're using that, but
XFree86 is the default on 4.10).  Check if you have that.

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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
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