[Midnightbsd-mports] www/firefox* diffs

[Chris]

On 2021-09-23 10:37, Chris wrote:
> On 2021-09-23 10:32, Chris wrote:
>> Sorry I know the preferred method is via GitHub pull requests.
>> But shortly after getting an account on GitHub a couple 3 years
>> ago. I was unable to login. After some 30 days with tech support
>> and no progress. I asked them to delete it.
>> I don't have this problem with GitLab or Codeberg.
>> 
>> Anyway. Please find attached 2 git(1) diff's;
>> 1) www/firefox-esr (www-firefox-esr.diff
>> 2) www/firefox (www-firefox.diff)
>> In the case of firefox-esr, it's only "phase 1". I was able to
>> eliminate all the errors emanating from the patches in files/.
>> But as this is a fresh install on my laptop:
>> ( MidnightBSD 2.1.0 #2 29cf808604(stable/2.1)-dirty:
>> Mon Sep 20 18:25:51 EDT 2021 root at m2164:
>> /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 )
>> which isn't up to porting/development standards, This is as far
>> as I can go till I can whip it into shape. I've been maintaining
>> some 160 FreeBSD ports for around 7 years now. So this isn't
>> unfamiliar territory. ;-) Tho there are some subtle differences.
>> Which brings me to www/firefox. This one now builds and runs. But
>> not w/o problems. So more investigation with firefox itself. To
>> determine if it's just firefox or mports.
>> Lastly; multimedia/x265 (a depends of multimedia/ffmpeg) a depends
>> of firefox. Is a *very* unhappy port; dumping 10's of thousands of
>> warnings for Bad Macro definitions. I mention it; as it may relate
>> to the firefox unhappiness.
> 
> Well that sucks. Your MLM gratuitously stripped my attachments. :-(
Lets try it again. I had no problem supplying a patch for an Nvidia
card back in 2015:
(https://www.midnightbsd.org/pipermail/midnightbsd-mports/Week-of-Mon-20151221/000067.html)
Maybe it's just the way I'm attaching them...
> 
> --Chris
>> 
>> That's it.
>> 
>> Thanks! :-)
>> 
>> --Chris
>> 
>> P.S. This might appear as a "double post". I used the wrong
>> From user name in the first posting. Sorry. :-(
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