firefox-x11 on Lion

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at macports.org
Tue Dec 6 09:56:12 PST 2011


Oh yea, I recall that coming up in the past on Mozilla's bugzilla.  I thought Mozilla fixed that, but I guess not.  We should update the port to depend on the grep port.

Thanks.

On Dec 6, 2011, at 5:42 AM, Richard Tobin wrote:

> I finally got round to looking into this.  This egrep in configure.in:
> 
>  sort confdefs.h | egrep -v "$_EGREP_PATTERN" >> $_CONFIG_TMP
> 
> fails with "egrep: Regular expression too big" if you are using the
> system grep.  The result is no definitions in mozilla-config.h.
> 
>> It works for me...
> 
> Presumably you had the "grep" port installed.  Firefox-x11 was the
> first port I tried to build on a new machine.
> 
> -- Richard
> 
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