[Midnightbsd-mports] www/firefox* diffs

[Chris]

On 2021-09-23 10:48, Chris wrote:
> 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...
Hmm... that didn't work. Lets try one at a time...
www/firefox-esr

>> 
>> --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. :-(