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* Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versionsLouis Epstein
`* Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versionsDave Yeo
 +- Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versionsDetlef Sax
 `* Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versionsLouis Epstein
  +- Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versionsWinston
  `* Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versionsDave Yeo
   `* Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versionsLouis Epstein
    `* Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versionsted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
     `* Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versionsLouis Epstein
      `* Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versionsted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
       `* Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versionsLouis Epstein
        `* Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versionsted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
         `* Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versionsLouis Epstein
          `* Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versionsted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
           `* Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versionsLouis Epstein
            `* Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versionsLouis Epstein
             `* Firefox and FreeBSD versionsLouis Epstein
              `* Re: Firefox and FreeBSD versionsLouis Epstein
               `* Re: Firefox and FreeBSD versionsLouis Epstein
                `- Re: Firefox and FreeBSD versionsted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan

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Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versions

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From: le@top.put.com (Louis Epstein)
Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.seamonkey,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versions
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 22:09:33 -0000 (UTC)
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 by: Louis Epstein - Thu, 13 Oct 2022 22:09 UTC

JKB <JKB@hilbert.invalid> wrote:
> Le 04-09-2022, Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> a ?crit?:
>> I just recently upgraded my FreeBSD from
>> no-longer-supported 11.x to supported-until-year-after-next
>> 12.x but Seamonkey is refusing to launch with a
>> "Couldn't load XPCOM" message...I am using an
>> ad hoc port of 2.53.7 because they stopped maintaining
>> an official port after 2.49.4 (that port went through
>> many iterations but they abandoned it out of impatience
>> for 2.49.5 JUST before 2.49.5 finally came out).
>> Since I use AdBlockPlus I'm not sure if a later Seamonkey
>> is compatible on that end (I see 2.53.13 won't use it)
>> but is there a specific breakage with newer FreeBSDs?
>>
>> What software is needed to supply XPCOM to Seamonkey
>> and how can I load it in my FreeBSD 12.3 system?
>
> I build SM 2.53.* from sources on:
>
> pythagore:[~] > uname -a
> FreeBSD pythagore 13.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE releng/13.1-n250148-fc952ac2212 GENERIC amd64
>
> Now, I successfully run seamonkey-2.53.13 from
> seamonkey-2.53.13.source.tar.xz.
>
> I have built rust from ports (1.61.0) and my .mozconfig contains :
>
> export CC=clang13
> export CXX=clang++13
> ac_add_options --enable-application=comm/suite
> ac_add_options --enable-calendar
> ac_add_options --enable-irc
> ac_add_options --enable-dominspector
> ac_add_options --enable-optimize
> ac_add_options --disable-debug
>
> Firefox from pkg runs fine also.
>
> Of course, I only have a 13.1-RELEASE, but I have built without
> trouble (and run without issue) Seamonkey on a FreeBSD 12.*.
>
> Best regards,
>
> JKB
>

I still don't have a working Seamonkey on my FreeBSD 12.3!
The guy who's been trying to build it for me says his most recent
"attempt didn't work because the version of SM uses and[sic]
autoconfig.m4 file, where FreeBSD doesn't support m4."

We've tried various versions of rust.(I note ports/packages now
have 1.63 but "rustup" has 1.64 as its default).

In the meantime both Firefox and Firefox-usr have become broken
because of XPCOM issues as a result of the attempts to get Seamonkey
going...XPCOM doesn't load with them either and attempts to deinstall/
reinstall from ports or delete/install with pkg don't produce working
versions.

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versions

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 by: Dave Yeo - Sat, 15 Oct 2022 04:39 UTC

Louis Epstein wrote:
> I still don't have a working Seamonkey on my FreeBSD 12.3!
> The guy who's been trying to build it for me says his most recent
> "attempt didn't work because the version of SM uses and[sic]
> autoconfig.m4 file, where FreeBSD doesn't support m4."

It must support m4, it's part of the autotools and needed to build most
anything that uses configure.
SM does need (unless it has changed, haven't built any recent versions)
autoconf213 and if he is trying with a recent autoconf, I'd guess weird
errors.
You might need export AUTOCONF=/path/to/autoconf213 or such in your
environment

>
> We've tried various versions of rust.(I note ports/packages now
> have 1.63 but "rustup" has 1.64 as its default).
>
> In the meantime both Firefox and Firefox-usr have become broken
> because of XPCOM issues as a result of the attempts to get Seamonkey
> going...XPCOM doesn't load with them either and attempts to deinstall/
> reinstall from ports or delete/install with pkg don't produce working
> versions.

The unable to load XPCOM error is a generic error caused by a missing or
the wrong version of a library.
Are there tools to see what the dependencies of a binary are?
Dave

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 by: Detlef Sax - Sat, 15 Oct 2022 07:58 UTC

On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 21:39:45 -0700, Dave Yeo wrote:
> Louis Epstein wrote:
>> I still don't have a working Seamonkey on my FreeBSD 12.3!
>> The guy who's been trying to build it for me says his most recent
>> "attempt didn't work because the version of SM uses and[sic]
>> autoconfig.m4 file, where FreeBSD doesn't support m4."
>
> It must support m4, it's part of the autotools and needed to build most
> anything that uses configure.
> SM does need (unless it has changed, haven't built any recent versions)
> autoconf213 and if he is trying with a recent autoconf, I'd guess weird
> errors.
> You might need export AUTOCONF=/path/to/autoconf213 or such in your
> environment

m4 is part of the base system. Years ago I used it for sendmail.
Simply try ``man m4ยดยด.

Detlef
--
https://www.12schrittefrei.de/
https://www.noart.de/

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From: le@top.put.com (Louis Epstein)
Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.seamonkey,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versions
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 17:50:07 -0000 (UTC)
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 by: Louis Epstein - Sat, 15 Oct 2022 17:50 UTC

In alt.comp.software.seamonkey Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Louis Epstein wrote:
>> I still don't have a working Seamonkey on my FreeBSD 12.3!
>> The guy who's been trying to build it for me says his most recent
>> "attempt didn't work because the version of SM uses and[sic]
>> autoconfig.m4 file, where FreeBSD doesn't support m4."
>
> It must support m4, it's part of the autotools and needed to build most
> anything that uses configure.
> SM does need (unless it has changed, haven't built any recent versions)
> autoconf213 and if he is trying with a recent autoconf, I'd guess weird
> errors.
> You might need export AUTOCONF=/path/to/autoconf213 or such in your
> environment

It appears that it is simply not finding
/usr/local/share/autoconf2.13/autoconf.m4
which does exist.
Does a more recent autoconf also being in /usr/local/share
confuse things?
>>
>> We've tried various versions of rust.(I note ports/packages now
>> have 1.63 but "rustup" has 1.64 as its default).
>>
>> In the meantime both Firefox and Firefox-usr have become broken
>> because of XPCOM issues as a result of the attempts to get Seamonkey
>> going...XPCOM doesn't load with them either and attempts to deinstall/
>> reinstall from ports or delete/install with pkg don't produce working
>> versions.
>
> The unable to load XPCOM error is a generic error caused by a missing or
> the wrong version of a library.
> Are there tools to see what the dependencies of a binary are?
> Dave
>

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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 by: Winston - Sun, 16 Oct 2022 02:31 UTC

[AIOE didn't allow me to crosspost this to alt.comp.software.seamonkey.]

Louis Epstein wrote:
>>> I still don't have a working Seamonkey on my FreeBSD 12.3!
>>> The guy who's been trying to build it for me says his most recent
>>> "attempt didn't work because the version of SM uses and[sic]
>>> autoconfig.m4 file, where FreeBSD doesn't support m4."

to which Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> replied:
>> It must support m4, it's part of the autotools and needed to build most
>> anything that uses configure.
>> SM does need (unless it has changed, haven't built any recent versions)
>> autoconf213 and if he is trying with a recent autoconf, I'd guess weird
>> errors.
>> You might need export AUTOCONF=/path/to/autoconf213 or such in your
>> environment

Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> responded:
> It appears that it is simply not finding
> /usr/local/share/autoconf2.13/autoconf.m4
> which does exist.

FWIW, on a FreeBSD 13.1 system, I find:

/usr/local/share/autoconf2.71/autoconf/autoconf.m4

so there's an extra "autoconf/" to get to autoconf.m4 compared to
what you have above, but since you say the file exists, maybe
things changed between 2.13 and 2.71.

/usr/local/bin/autoconf is the short POSIX shell script:
----------
#! /bin/sh
${DEFAULT_AUTOCONF:+exec "$0${DEFAULT_AUTOCONF}" "$@"}
c=$(ls -d "$0"[0-9]* 2>/dev/null | sort -Vr | head -n1)
exec "${c:?$0: not installed}" "$@"
----------

That script appears to list the /usr/local/share/autoconf[0-9]*
directories and take the one that sorts the highest. If 2.13
does that, too, then the answer to:

> Does a more recent autoconf also being in /usr/local/share
> confuse things?

is likely yes. It looks like it would be simple enough to create your
own version of the shell script that avoids the sort and just uses
/usr/local/share/autoconf2.13/ .

HTH,
-WBE

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 by: Dave Yeo - Sun, 16 Oct 2022 04:35 UTC

Louis Epstein wrote:
> In alt.comp.software.seamonkey Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>> I still don't have a working Seamonkey on my FreeBSD 12.3!
>>> The guy who's been trying to build it for me says his most recent
>>> "attempt didn't work because the version of SM uses and[sic]
>>> autoconfig.m4 file, where FreeBSD doesn't support m4."
>> It must support m4, it's part of the autotools and needed to build most
>> anything that uses configure.
>> SM does need (unless it has changed, haven't built any recent versions)
>> autoconf213 and if he is trying with a recent autoconf, I'd guess weird
>> errors.
>> You might need export AUTOCONF=/path/to/autoconf213 or such in your
>> environment
> It appears that it is simply not finding
> /usr/local/share/autoconf2.13/autoconf.m4
> which does exist.
> Does a more recent autoconf also being in /usr/local/share
> confuse things?
>

It appears so. I'm on OS/2, our libc was ported from freebsd to build
Mozilla and autoconf213 likewise. I installed with yum/rpm.
I have /usr/share/autoconf213 which contains all the *.m4 files plus the
other ac* scripts with /usr/bin/autoconf213 having this line about line 38,
: ${AC_MACRODIR="${AC_PREFIX-/@unixroot/usr}/share/autoconf213"}
: ${M4=m4.exe}

note that @unixroot expands to a drive letter here as we're multi-root
Perhaps something similar would support both autoconf's being installed
in /usr/local
Dave

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 by: Louis Epstein - Mon, 17 Oct 2022 04:26 UTC

In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Louis Epstein wrote:
>> In alt.comp.software.seamonkey Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>> I still don't have a working Seamonkey on my FreeBSD 12.3!
>>>> The guy who's been trying to build it for me says his most recent
>>>> "attempt didn't work because the version of SM uses and[sic]
>>>> autoconfig.m4 file, where FreeBSD doesn't support m4."
>>> It must support m4, it's part of the autotools and needed to build most
>>> anything that uses configure.
>>> SM does need (unless it has changed, haven't built any recent versions)
>>> autoconf213 and if he is trying with a recent autoconf, I'd guess weird
>>> errors.
>>> You might need export AUTOCONF=/path/to/autoconf213 or such in your
>>> environment
>> It appears that it is simply not finding
>> /usr/local/share/autoconf2.13/autoconf.m4
>> which does exist.
>> Does a more recent autoconf also being in /usr/local/share
>> confuse things?
>>
>
> It appears so. I'm on OS/2, our libc was ported from freebsd to build
> Mozilla and autoconf213 likewise. I installed with yum/rpm.
> I have /usr/share/autoconf213 which contains all the *.m4 files plus the
> other ac* scripts with /usr/bin/autoconf213 having this line about line 38,
> : ${AC_MACRODIR="${AC_PREFIX-/@unixroot/usr}/share/autoconf213"}
> : ${M4=m4.exe}
>
> note that @unixroot expands to a drive letter here as we're multi-root
> Perhaps something similar would support both autoconf's being installed
> in /usr/local

Apparently autoconf.m4f was in a misnamed directory...
I NOW HAVE A WORKING SEAMONKEY 2.53.14 running with my FreeBSD 12.3

BUT...

Firefox won't build properly,won't launch
(there are some sites that work with it and not Seamonkey).

Is anyone else having THAT FreeBSD problem at this time?
(Before it was complaining about rust,now there's a
message about MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE,but either way it comes
up missing libldap60.so and won't load XPCOM.

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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From: @ednolan (ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan)
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 by: ted@loft.tnolan.com - Mon, 17 Oct 2022 04:35 UTC

In article <tiilh7$40e$1@reader2.panix.com>,
Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>> In alt.comp.software.seamonkey Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>>> I still don't have a working Seamonkey on my FreeBSD 12.3!
>>>>> The guy who's been trying to build it for me says his most recent
>>>>> "attempt didn't work because the version of SM uses and[sic]
>>>>> autoconfig.m4 file, where FreeBSD doesn't support m4."
>>>> It must support m4, it's part of the autotools and needed to build most
>>>> anything that uses configure.
>>>> SM does need (unless it has changed, haven't built any recent versions)
>>>> autoconf213 and if he is trying with a recent autoconf, I'd guess weird
>>>> errors.
>>>> You might need export AUTOCONF=/path/to/autoconf213 or such in your
>>>> environment
>>> It appears that it is simply not finding
>>> /usr/local/share/autoconf2.13/autoconf.m4
>>> which does exist.
>>> Does a more recent autoconf also being in /usr/local/share
>>> confuse things?
>>>
>>
>> It appears so. I'm on OS/2, our libc was ported from freebsd to build
>> Mozilla and autoconf213 likewise. I installed with yum/rpm.
>> I have /usr/share/autoconf213 which contains all the *.m4 files plus the
>> other ac* scripts with /usr/bin/autoconf213 having this line about line 38,
>> : ${AC_MACRODIR="${AC_PREFIX-/@unixroot/usr}/share/autoconf213"}
>> : ${M4=m4.exe}
>>
>> note that @unixroot expands to a drive letter here as we're multi-root
>> Perhaps something similar would support both autoconf's being installed
>> in /usr/local
>
>Apparently autoconf.m4f was in a misnamed directory...
>I NOW HAVE A WORKING SEAMONKEY 2.53.14 running with my FreeBSD 12.3
>
>BUT...
>
>Firefox won't build properly,won't launch
>(there are some sites that work with it and not Seamonkey).
>
>Is anyone else having THAT FreeBSD problem at this time?
>(Before it was complaining about rust,now there's a
>message about MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE,but either way it comes
>up missing libldap60.so and won't load XPCOM.
>

You don't have to build Firefox for FreeBSD12.3. It's available
as a package.
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Subject: Re: Seamonkey and FreeBSD versions
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 by: Louis Epstein - Mon, 17 Oct 2022 20:03 UTC

Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
> In article <tiilh7$40e$1@reader2.panix.com>,
> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>> In alt.comp.software.seamonkey Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>>>> I still don't have a working Seamonkey on my FreeBSD 12.3!
>>>>>> The guy who's been trying to build it for me says his most recent
>>>>>> "attempt didn't work because the version of SM uses and[sic]
>>>>>> autoconfig.m4 file, where FreeBSD doesn't support m4."
>>>>> It must support m4, it's part of the autotools and needed to build most
>>>>> anything that uses configure.
>>>>> SM does need (unless it has changed, haven't built any recent versions)
>>>>> autoconf213 and if he is trying with a recent autoconf, I'd guess weird
>>>>> errors.
>>>>> You might need export AUTOCONF=/path/to/autoconf213 or such in your
>>>>> environment
>>>> It appears that it is simply not finding
>>>> /usr/local/share/autoconf2.13/autoconf.m4
>>>> which does exist.
>>>> Does a more recent autoconf also being in /usr/local/share
>>>> confuse things?
>>>>
>>>
>>> It appears so. I'm on OS/2, our libc was ported from freebsd to build
>>> Mozilla and autoconf213 likewise. I installed with yum/rpm.
>>> I have /usr/share/autoconf213 which contains all the *.m4 files plus the
>>> other ac* scripts with /usr/bin/autoconf213 having this line about line 38,
>>> : ${AC_MACRODIR="${AC_PREFIX-/@unixroot/usr}/share/autoconf213"}
>>> : ${M4=m4.exe}
>>>
>>> note that @unixroot expands to a drive letter here as we're multi-root
>>> Perhaps something similar would support both autoconf's being installed
>>> in /usr/local
>>
>>Apparently autoconf.m4f was in a misnamed directory...
>>I NOW HAVE A WORKING SEAMONKEY 2.53.14 running with my FreeBSD 12.3
>>
>>BUT...
>>
>>Firefox won't build properly,won't launch
>>(there are some sites that work with it and not Seamonkey).
>>
>>Is anyone else having THAT FreeBSD problem at this time?
>>(Before it was complaining about rust,now there's a
>>message about MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE,but either way it comes
>>up missing libldap60.so and won't load XPCOM.
>>
>
> You don't have to build Firefox for FreeBSD12.3. It's available
> as a package.

pkg install has not worked in recent attempts.

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 by: ted@loft.tnolan.com - Mon, 17 Oct 2022 21:13 UTC

In article <tikceg$jhb$1@reader2.panix.com>,
Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>> In article <tiilh7$40e$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>>> In alt.comp.software.seamonkey Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>>>>> I still don't have a working Seamonkey on my FreeBSD 12.3!
>>>>>>> The guy who's been trying to build it for me says his most recent
>>>>>>> "attempt didn't work because the version of SM uses and[sic]
>>>>>>> autoconfig.m4 file, where FreeBSD doesn't support m4."
>>>>>> It must support m4, it's part of the autotools and needed to build most
>>>>>> anything that uses configure.
>>>>>> SM does need (unless it has changed, haven't built any recent versions)
>>>>>> autoconf213 and if he is trying with a recent autoconf, I'd guess weird
>>>>>> errors.
>>>>>> You might need export AUTOCONF=/path/to/autoconf213 or such in your
>>>>>> environment
>>>>> It appears that it is simply not finding
>>>>> /usr/local/share/autoconf2.13/autoconf.m4
>>>>> which does exist.
>>>>> Does a more recent autoconf also being in /usr/local/share
>>>>> confuse things?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It appears so. I'm on OS/2, our libc was ported from freebsd to build
>>>> Mozilla and autoconf213 likewise. I installed with yum/rpm.
>>>> I have /usr/share/autoconf213 which contains all the *.m4 files plus the
>>>> other ac* scripts with /usr/bin/autoconf213 having this line about line 38,
>>>> : ${AC_MACRODIR="${AC_PREFIX-/@unixroot/usr}/share/autoconf213"}
>>>> : ${M4=m4.exe}
>>>>
>>>> note that @unixroot expands to a drive letter here as we're multi-root
>>>> Perhaps something similar would support both autoconf's being installed
>>>> in /usr/local
>>>
>>>Apparently autoconf.m4f was in a misnamed directory...
>>>I NOW HAVE A WORKING SEAMONKEY 2.53.14 running with my FreeBSD 12.3
>>>
>>>BUT...
>>>
>>>Firefox won't build properly,won't launch
>>>(there are some sites that work with it and not Seamonkey).
>>>
>>>Is anyone else having THAT FreeBSD problem at this time?
>>>(Before it was complaining about rust,now there's a
>>>message about MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE,but either way it comes
>>>up missing libldap60.so and won't load XPCOM.
>>>
>>
>> You don't have to build Firefox for FreeBSD12.3. It's available
>> as a package.
>
>pkg install has not worked in recent attempts.
>

Hmm. Don't know what to tell you then. I'm on 12.3 amd64 right now
and firefox works for me.
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 by: Louis Epstein - Tue, 18 Oct 2022 01:04 UTC

Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
> In article <tikceg$jhb$1@reader2.panix.com>,
> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>> In article <tiilh7$40e$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>>>> In alt.comp.software.seamonkey Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>>>>>> I still don't have a working Seamonkey on my FreeBSD 12.3!
>>>>>>>> The guy who's been trying to build it for me says his most recent
>>>>>>>> "attempt didn't work because the version of SM uses and[sic]
>>>>>>>> autoconfig.m4 file, where FreeBSD doesn't support m4."
>>>>>>> It must support m4, it's part of the autotools and needed to build most
>>>>>>> anything that uses configure.
>>>>>>> SM does need (unless it has changed, haven't built any recent versions)
>>>>>>> autoconf213 and if he is trying with a recent autoconf, I'd guess weird
>>>>>>> errors.
>>>>>>> You might need export AUTOCONF=/path/to/autoconf213 or such in your
>>>>>>> environment
>>>>>> It appears that it is simply not finding
>>>>>> /usr/local/share/autoconf2.13/autoconf.m4
>>>>>> which does exist.
>>>>>> Does a more recent autoconf also being in /usr/local/share
>>>>>> confuse things?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It appears so. I'm on OS/2, our libc was ported from freebsd to build
>>>>> Mozilla and autoconf213 likewise. I installed with yum/rpm.
>>>>> I have /usr/share/autoconf213 which contains all the *.m4 files plus the
>>>>> other ac* scripts with /usr/bin/autoconf213 having this line about line 38,
>>>>> : ${AC_MACRODIR="${AC_PREFIX-/@unixroot/usr}/share/autoconf213"}
>>>>> : ${M4=m4.exe}
>>>>>
>>>>> note that @unixroot expands to a drive letter here as we're multi-root
>>>>> Perhaps something similar would support both autoconf's being installed
>>>>> in /usr/local
>>>>
>>>>Apparently autoconf.m4f was in a misnamed directory...
>>>>I NOW HAVE A WORKING SEAMONKEY 2.53.14 running with my FreeBSD 12.3
>>>>
>>>>BUT...
>>>>
>>>>Firefox won't build properly,won't launch
>>>>(there are some sites that work with it and not Seamonkey).
>>>>
>>>>Is anyone else having THAT FreeBSD problem at this time?
>>>>(Before it was complaining about rust,now there's a
>>>>message about MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE,but either way it comes
>>>>up missing libldap60.so and won't load XPCOM.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You don't have to build Firefox for FreeBSD12.3. It's available
>>> as a package.
>>
>>pkg install has not worked in recent attempts.
>>
>
> Hmm. Don't know what to tell you then. I'm on 12.3 amd64 right now
> and firefox works for me.

More specifically,every attempt to install it and launch gets
no further thnan an XPCOMGlueLoad error because the shared object
"libldap60.so" is not found so it can't load XPCOM.

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 by: ted@loft.tnolan.com - Tue, 18 Oct 2022 03:34 UTC

In article <tiku2p$8ej$1@reader2.panix.com>,
Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>> In article <tikceg$jhb$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>>> In article <tiilh7$40e$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>>In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>>>>> In alt.comp.software.seamonkey Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I still don't have a working Seamonkey on my FreeBSD 12.3!
>>>>>>>>> The guy who's been trying to build it for me says his most recent
>>>>>>>>> "attempt didn't work because the version of SM uses and[sic]
>>>>>>>>> autoconfig.m4 file, where FreeBSD doesn't support m4."
>>>>>>>> It must support m4, it's part of the autotools and needed to build most
>>>>>>>> anything that uses configure.
>>>>>>>> SM does need (unless it has changed, haven't built any recent versions)
>>>>>>>> autoconf213 and if he is trying with a recent autoconf, I'd guess weird
>>>>>>>> errors.
>>>>>>>> You might need export AUTOCONF=/path/to/autoconf213 or such in your
>>>>>>>> environment
>>>>>>> It appears that it is simply not finding
>>>>>>> /usr/local/share/autoconf2.13/autoconf.m4
>>>>>>> which does exist.
>>>>>>> Does a more recent autoconf also being in /usr/local/share
>>>>>>> confuse things?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It appears so. I'm on OS/2, our libc was ported from freebsd to build
>>>>>> Mozilla and autoconf213 likewise. I installed with yum/rpm.
>>>>>> I have /usr/share/autoconf213 which contains all the *.m4 files plus the
>>>>>> other ac* scripts with /usr/bin/autoconf213 having this line about
>line 38,
>>>>>> : ${AC_MACRODIR="${AC_PREFIX-/@unixroot/usr}/share/autoconf213"}
>>>>>> : ${M4=m4.exe}
>>>>>>
>>>>>> note that @unixroot expands to a drive letter here as we're multi-root
>>>>>> Perhaps something similar would support both autoconf's being installed
>>>>>> in /usr/local
>>>>>
>>>>>Apparently autoconf.m4f was in a misnamed directory...
>>>>>I NOW HAVE A WORKING SEAMONKEY 2.53.14 running with my FreeBSD 12.3
>>>>>
>>>>>BUT...
>>>>>
>>>>>Firefox won't build properly,won't launch
>>>>>(there are some sites that work with it and not Seamonkey).
>>>>>
>>>>>Is anyone else having THAT FreeBSD problem at this time?
>>>>>(Before it was complaining about rust,now there's a
>>>>>message about MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE,but either way it comes
>>>>>up missing libldap60.so and won't load XPCOM.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You don't have to build Firefox for FreeBSD12.3. It's available
>>>> as a package.
>>>
>>>pkg install has not worked in recent attempts.
>>>
>>
>> Hmm. Don't know what to tell you then. I'm on 12.3 amd64 right now
>> and firefox works for me.
>
>More specifically,every attempt to install it and launch gets
>no further thnan an XPCOMGlueLoad error because the shared object
>"libldap60.so" is not found so it can't load XPCOM.
>

Well, libldap60.so is apparently not on my system either, but firefox
is still happy, so I got nothing.

I'm sure you probably found this when you googled, but FWIW:

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/firefox-will-not-launch.59758/
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Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
> In article <tiku2p$8ej$1@reader2.panix.com>,
> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>> In article <tikceg$jhb$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>>>> In article <tiilh7$40e$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>>>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>>>In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>>>>>> In alt.comp.software.seamonkey Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> I still don't have a working Seamonkey on my FreeBSD 12.3!
>>>>>>>>>> The guy who's been trying to build it for me says his most recent
>>>>>>>>>> "attempt didn't work because the version of SM uses and[sic]
>>>>>>>>>> autoconfig.m4 file, where FreeBSD doesn't support m4."
>>>>>>>>> It must support m4, it's part of the autotools and needed to build most
>>>>>>>>> anything that uses configure.
>>>>>>>>> SM does need (unless it has changed, haven't built any recent versions)
>>>>>>>>> autoconf213 and if he is trying with a recent autoconf, I'd guess weird
>>>>>>>>> errors.
>>>>>>>>> You might need export AUTOCONF=/path/to/autoconf213 or such in your
>>>>>>>>> environment
>>>>>>>> It appears that it is simply not finding
>>>>>>>> /usr/local/share/autoconf2.13/autoconf.m4
>>>>>>>> which does exist.
>>>>>>>> Does a more recent autoconf also being in /usr/local/share
>>>>>>>> confuse things?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It appears so. I'm on OS/2, our libc was ported from freebsd to build
>>>>>>> Mozilla and autoconf213 likewise. I installed with yum/rpm.
>>>>>>> I have /usr/share/autoconf213 which contains all the *.m4 files plus the
>>>>>>> other ac* scripts with /usr/bin/autoconf213 having this line about
>>line 38,
>>>>>>> : ${AC_MACRODIR="${AC_PREFIX-/@unixroot/usr}/share/autoconf213"}
>>>>>>> : ${M4=m4.exe}
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> note that @unixroot expands to a drive letter here as we're multi-root
>>>>>>> Perhaps something similar would support both autoconf's being installed
>>>>>>> in /usr/local
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Apparently autoconf.m4f was in a misnamed directory...
>>>>>>I NOW HAVE A WORKING SEAMONKEY 2.53.14 running with my FreeBSD 12.3
>>>>>>
>>>>>>BUT...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Firefox won't build properly,won't launch
>>>>>>(there are some sites that work with it and not Seamonkey).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Is anyone else having THAT FreeBSD problem at this time?
>>>>>>(Before it was complaining about rust,now there's a
>>>>>>message about MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE,but either way it comes
>>>>>>up missing libldap60.so and won't load XPCOM.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You don't have to build Firefox for FreeBSD12.3. It's available
>>>>> as a package.
>>>>
>>>>pkg install has not worked in recent attempts.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hmm. Don't know what to tell you then. I'm on 12.3 amd64 right now
>>> and firefox works for me.
>>
>>More specifically,every attempt to install it and launch gets
>>no further thnan an XPCOMGlueLoad error because the shared object
>>"libldap60.so" is not found so it can't load XPCOM.
>>
>
> Well, libldap60.so is apparently not on my system either, but firefox
> is still happy, so I got nothing.

Is libxul.so involved for you?
That is what is said to require libldap60.so .
> I'm sure you probably found this when you googled, but FWIW:
>
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/firefox-will-not-launch.59758/

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In article <til9io$lkp$1@reader2.panix.com>,
Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>> In article <tiku2p$8ej$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>>> In article <tikceg$jhb$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>>>>> In article <tiilh7$40e$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>>>>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>>>>>>> In alt.comp.software.seamonkey Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> I still don't have a working Seamonkey on my FreeBSD 12.3!
>>>>>>>>>>> The guy who's been trying to build it for me says his most recent
>>>>>>>>>>> "attempt didn't work because the version of SM uses and[sic]
>>>>>>>>>>> autoconfig.m4 file, where FreeBSD doesn't support m4."
>>>>>>>>>> It must support m4, it's part of the autotools and needed to
>build most
>>>>>>>>>> anything that uses configure.
>>>>>>>>>> SM does need (unless it has changed, haven't built any recent
>versions)
>>>>>>>>>> autoconf213 and if he is trying with a recent autoconf, I'd
>guess weird
>>>>>>>>>> errors.
>>>>>>>>>> You might need export AUTOCONF=/path/to/autoconf213 or such in your
>>>>>>>>>> environment
>>>>>>>>> It appears that it is simply not finding
>>>>>>>>> /usr/local/share/autoconf2.13/autoconf.m4
>>>>>>>>> which does exist.
>>>>>>>>> Does a more recent autoconf also being in /usr/local/share
>>>>>>>>> confuse things?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It appears so. I'm on OS/2, our libc was ported from freebsd to build
>>>>>>>> Mozilla and autoconf213 likewise. I installed with yum/rpm.
>>>>>>>> I have /usr/share/autoconf213 which contains all the *.m4 files
>plus the
>>>>>>>> other ac* scripts with /usr/bin/autoconf213 having this line about
>>>line 38,
>>>>>>>> : ${AC_MACRODIR="${AC_PREFIX-/@unixroot/usr}/share/autoconf213"}
>>>>>>>> : ${M4=m4.exe}
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> note that @unixroot expands to a drive letter here as we're multi-root
>>>>>>>> Perhaps something similar would support both autoconf's being installed
>>>>>>>> in /usr/local
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Apparently autoconf.m4f was in a misnamed directory...
>>>>>>>I NOW HAVE A WORKING SEAMONKEY 2.53.14 running with my FreeBSD 12.3
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>BUT...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Firefox won't build properly,won't launch
>>>>>>>(there are some sites that work with it and not Seamonkey).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Is anyone else having THAT FreeBSD problem at this time?
>>>>>>>(Before it was complaining about rust,now there's a
>>>>>>>message about MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE,but either way it comes
>>>>>>>up missing libldap60.so and won't load XPCOM.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You don't have to build Firefox for FreeBSD12.3. It's available
>>>>>> as a package.
>>>>>
>>>>>pkg install has not worked in recent attempts.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hmm. Don't know what to tell you then. I'm on 12.3 amd64 right now
>>>> and firefox works for me.
>>>
>>>More specifically,every attempt to install it and launch gets
>>>no further thnan an XPCOMGlueLoad error because the shared object
>>>"libldap60.so" is not found so it can't load XPCOM.
>>>
>>
>> Well, libldap60.so is apparently not on my system either, but firefox
>> is still happy, so I got nothing.
>
>Is libxul.so involved for you?
>That is what is said to require libldap60.so .
>
>> I'm sure you probably found this when you googled, but FWIW:
>>
>> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/firefox-will-not-launch.59758/
>

My system does have libxul.so in /usr/local/lib/firefox, so it's
there in the firefox mix somewhere. However "ldd ./libxul.so" does
not list libldap60.so (or any libldap version) as a dependancy.
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 by: Louis Epstein - Wed, 19 Oct 2022 21:52 UTC

Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
> In article <til9io$lkp$1@reader2.panix.com>,
> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>> In article <tiku2p$8ej$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>>>> In article <tikceg$jhb$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>>>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <tiilh7$40e$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>>>>>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> In alt.comp.software.seamonkey Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> I still don't have a working Seamonkey on my FreeBSD 12.3!
>>>>>>>>>>>> The guy who's been trying to build it for me says his most recent
>>>>>>>>>>>> "attempt didn't work because the version of SM uses and[sic]
>>>>>>>>>>>> autoconfig.m4 file, where FreeBSD doesn't support m4."
>>>>>>>>>>> It must support m4, it's part of the autotools and needed to
>>build most
>>>>>>>>>>> anything that uses configure.
>>>>>>>>>>> SM does need (unless it has changed, haven't built any recent
>>versions)
>>>>>>>>>>> autoconf213 and if he is trying with a recent autoconf, I'd
>>guess weird
>>>>>>>>>>> errors.
>>>>>>>>>>> You might need export AUTOCONF=/path/to/autoconf213 or such in your
>>>>>>>>>>> environment
>>>>>>>>>> It appears that it is simply not finding
>>>>>>>>>> /usr/local/share/autoconf2.13/autoconf.m4
>>>>>>>>>> which does exist.
>>>>>>>>>> Does a more recent autoconf also being in /usr/local/share
>>>>>>>>>> confuse things?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It appears so. I'm on OS/2, our libc was ported from freebsd to build
>>>>>>>>> Mozilla and autoconf213 likewise. I installed with yum/rpm.
>>>>>>>>> I have /usr/share/autoconf213 which contains all the *.m4 files
>>plus the
>>>>>>>>> other ac* scripts with /usr/bin/autoconf213 having this line about
>>>>line 38,
>>>>>>>>> : ${AC_MACRODIR="${AC_PREFIX-/@unixroot/usr}/share/autoconf213"}
>>>>>>>>> : ${M4=m4.exe}
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> note that @unixroot expands to a drive letter here as we're multi-root
>>>>>>>>> Perhaps something similar would support both autoconf's being installed
>>>>>>>>> in /usr/local
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Apparently autoconf.m4f was in a misnamed directory...
>>>>>>>>I NOW HAVE A WORKING SEAMONKEY 2.53.14 running with my FreeBSD 12.3
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>BUT...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Firefox won't build properly,won't launch
>>>>>>>>(there are some sites that work with it and not Seamonkey).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Is anyone else having THAT FreeBSD problem at this time?
>>>>>>>>(Before it was complaining about rust,now there's a
>>>>>>>>message about MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE,but either way it comes
>>>>>>>>up missing libldap60.so and won't load XPCOM.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You don't have to build Firefox for FreeBSD12.3. It's available
>>>>>>> as a package.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>pkg install has not worked in recent attempts.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm. Don't know what to tell you then. I'm on 12.3 amd64 right now
>>>>> and firefox works for me.
>>>>
>>>>More specifically,every attempt to install it and launch gets
>>>>no further thnan an XPCOMGlueLoad error because the shared object
>>>>"libldap60.so" is not found so it can't load XPCOM.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, libldap60.so is apparently not on my system either, but firefox
>>> is still happy, so I got nothing.
>>
>>Is libxul.so involved for you?
>>That is what is said to require libldap60.so .
>>
>>> I'm sure you probably found this when you googled, but FWIW:
>>>
>>> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/firefox-will-not-launch.59758/
>>
>
> My system does have libxul.so in /usr/local/lib/firefox, so it's
> there in the firefox mix somewhere. However "ldd ./libxul.so" does
> not list libldap60.so (or any libldap version) as a dependancy.

Well,with latest attempts to start Firefox a window does come up,
but it's non-responsive...two tabs are shown
about:sessionrestore
and
New Tab
but the screen is vacant and gray below,nothing loads...
trying to use the address bar gets a menu of recent sites
but attempting to select one does not load it,and any attempt
to use any tab gets the window from which I launched firefox&
filling with repetitions of

Assertion failure
assert@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:500:36
preActions@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:567:10
handleEvent@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:1089:12
Assertion failure
assert@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:500:36
preActions@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:568:10
handleEvent@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:1089:12

For whatever that's worth!

-=-=-
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at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
> Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>> In article <til9io$lkp$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>>> In article <tiku2p$8ej$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>>>>> In article <tikceg$jhb$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>>>>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> In article <tiilh7$40e$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>>>>>>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> In alt.comp.software.seamonkey Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I still don't have a working Seamonkey on my FreeBSD 12.3!
>>>>>>>>>>>>> The guy who's been trying to build it for me says his most recent
>>>>>>>>>>>>> "attempt didn't work because the version of SM uses and[sic]
>>>>>>>>>>>>> autoconfig.m4 file, where FreeBSD doesn't support m4."
>>>>>>>>>>>> It must support m4, it's part of the autotools and needed to
>>>build most
>>>>>>>>>>>> anything that uses configure.
>>>>>>>>>>>> SM does need (unless it has changed, haven't built any recent
>>>versions)
>>>>>>>>>>>> autoconf213 and if he is trying with a recent autoconf, I'd
>>>guess weird
>>>>>>>>>>>> errors.
>>>>>>>>>>>> You might need export AUTOCONF=/path/to/autoconf213 or such in your
>>>>>>>>>>>> environment
>>>>>>>>>>> It appears that it is simply not finding
>>>>>>>>>>> /usr/local/share/autoconf2.13/autoconf.m4
>>>>>>>>>>> which does exist.
>>>>>>>>>>> Does a more recent autoconf also being in /usr/local/share
>>>>>>>>>>> confuse things?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> It appears so. I'm on OS/2, our libc was ported from freebsd to build
>>>>>>>>>> Mozilla and autoconf213 likewise. I installed with yum/rpm.
>>>>>>>>>> I have /usr/share/autoconf213 which contains all the *.m4 files
>>>plus the
>>>>>>>>>> other ac* scripts with /usr/bin/autoconf213 having this line about
>>>>>line 38,
>>>>>>>>>> : ${AC_MACRODIR="${AC_PREFIX-/@unixroot/usr}/share/autoconf213"}
>>>>>>>>>> : ${M4=m4.exe}
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> note that @unixroot expands to a drive letter here as we're multi-root
>>>>>>>>>> Perhaps something similar would support both autoconf's being installed
>>>>>>>>>> in /usr/local
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Apparently autoconf.m4f was in a misnamed directory...
>>>>>>>>>I NOW HAVE A WORKING SEAMONKEY 2.53.14 running with my FreeBSD 12.3
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>BUT...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Firefox won't build properly,won't launch
>>>>>>>>>(there are some sites that work with it and not Seamonkey).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Is anyone else having THAT FreeBSD problem at this time?
>>>>>>>>>(Before it was complaining about rust,now there's a
>>>>>>>>>message about MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE,but either way it comes
>>>>>>>>>up missing libldap60.so and won't load XPCOM.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You don't have to build Firefox for FreeBSD12.3. It's available
>>>>>>>> as a package.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>pkg install has not worked in recent attempts.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hmm. Don't know what to tell you then. I'm on 12.3 amd64 right now
>>>>>> and firefox works for me.
>>>>>
>>>>>More specifically,every attempt to install it and launch gets
>>>>>no further thnan an XPCOMGlueLoad error because the shared object
>>>>>"libldap60.so" is not found so it can't load XPCOM.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well, libldap60.so is apparently not on my system either, but firefox
>>>> is still happy, so I got nothing.
>>>
>>>Is libxul.so involved for you?
>>>That is what is said to require libldap60.so .
>>>
>>>> I'm sure you probably found this when you googled, but FWIW:
>>>>
>>>> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/firefox-will-not-launch.59758/
>>>
>>
>> My system does have libxul.so in /usr/local/lib/firefox, so it's
>> there in the firefox mix somewhere. However "ldd ./libxul.so" does
>> not list libldap60.so (or any libldap version) as a dependancy.
>
> Well,with latest attempts to start Firefox a window does come up,
> but it's non-responsive...two tabs are shown
> about:sessionrestore
> and
> New Tab
> but the screen is vacant and gray below,nothing loads...
> trying to use the address bar gets a menu of recent sites
> but attempting to select one does not load it,and any attempt
> to use any tab gets the window from which I launched firefox&
> filling with repetitions of
>
> Assertion failure
> assert@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:500:36
> preActions@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:567:10
> handleEvent@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:1089:12
> Assertion failure
> assert@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:500:36
> preActions@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:568:10
> handleEvent@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:1089:12

These apparently follow quickly on a complaint about sys/bus/pci
and two of lacking libnss.so.3 and an associated program...the
same old "couldn't load XPCOM" XPCOMGlueLoad errors.
> For whatever that's worth!
>
> -=-=-
> The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
> at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>> Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>> In article <til9io$lkp$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>>>> In article <tiku2p$8ej$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>>>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You don't have to build Firefox for FreeBSD12.3. It's available
>>>>>>>>> as a package.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>pkg install has not worked in recent attempts.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hmm. Don't know what to tell you then. I'm on 12.3 amd64 right now
>>>>>>> and firefox works for me.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>More specifically,every attempt to install it and launch gets
>>>>>>no further thnan an XPCOMGlueLoad error because the shared object
>>>>>>"libldap60.so" is not found so it can't load XPCOM.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, libldap60.so is apparently not on my system either, but firefox
>>>>> is still happy, so I got nothing.
>>>>
>>>>Is libxul.so involved for you?
>>>>That is what is said to require libldap60.so .
>>>>
>>>>> I'm sure you probably found this when you googled, but FWIW:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/firefox-will-not-launch.59758/
>>>>
>>>
>>> My system does have libxul.so in /usr/local/lib/firefox, so it's
>>> there in the firefox mix somewhere. However "ldd ./libxul.so" does
>>> not list libldap60.so (or any libldap version) as a dependancy.
>>
>> Well,with latest attempts to start Firefox a window does come up,
>> but it's non-responsive...two tabs are shown
>> about:sessionrestore
>> and
>> New Tab
>> but the screen is vacant and gray below,nothing loads...
>> trying to use the address bar gets a menu of recent sites
>> but attempting to select one does not load it,and any attempt
>> to use any tab gets the window from which I launched firefox&
>> filling with repetitions of
>>
>> Assertion failure
>> assert@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:500:36
>> preActions@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:567:10
>> handleEvent@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:1089:12
>> Assertion failure
>> assert@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:500:36
>> preActions@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:568:10
>> handleEvent@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:1089:12
>
> These apparently follow quickly on a complaint about sys/bus/pci
> and two of lacking libnss.so.3 and an associated program...the
> same old "couldn't load XPCOM" XPCOMGlueLoad errors.
>

Upgrading the Firefox package to 106.0.2 has made no difference.

>> For whatever that's worth!
>>
>> -=-=-
>> The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
>> at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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From: le@top.put.com (Louis Epstein)
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Subject: Re: Firefox and FreeBSD versions
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 by: Louis Epstein - Thu, 10 Nov 2022 01:41 UTC

Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>> Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>>> In article <til9io$lkp$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>>>>> In article <tiku2p$8ej$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>>>>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> You don't have to build Firefox for FreeBSD12.3. It's available
>>>>>>>>>> as a package.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>pkg install has not worked in recent attempts.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hmm. Don't know what to tell you then. I'm on 12.3 amd64 right now
>>>>>>>> and firefox works for me.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>More specifically,every attempt to install it and launch gets
>>>>>>>no further thnan an XPCOMGlueLoad error because the shared object
>>>>>>>"libldap60.so" is not found so it can't load XPCOM.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, libldap60.so is apparently not on my system either, but firefox
>>>>>> is still happy, so I got nothing.
>>>>>
>>>>>Is libxul.so involved for you?
>>>>>That is what is said to require libldap60.so .
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm sure you probably found this when you googled, but FWIW:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/firefox-will-not-launch.59758/
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My system does have libxul.so in /usr/local/lib/firefox, so it's
>>>> there in the firefox mix somewhere. However "ldd ./libxul.so" does
>>>> not list libldap60.so (or any libldap version) as a dependancy.
>>>
>>> Well,with latest attempts to start Firefox a window does come up,
>>> but it's non-responsive...two tabs are shown
>>> about:sessionrestore
>>> and
>>> New Tab
>>> but the screen is vacant and gray below,nothing loads...
>>> trying to use the address bar gets a menu of recent sites
>>> but attempting to select one does not load it,and any attempt
>>> to use any tab gets the window from which I launched firefox&
>>> filling with repetitions of
>>>
>>> Assertion failure
>>> assert@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:500:36
>>> preActions@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:567:10
>>> handleEvent@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:1089:12
>>> Assertion failure
>>> assert@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:500:36
>>> preActions@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:568:10
>>> handleEvent@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:1089:12
>>
>> These apparently follow quickly on a complaint about sys/bus/pci
>> and two of lacking libnss.so.3 and an associated program...the
>> same old "couldn't load XPCOM" XPCOMGlueLoad errors.
>>
>
> Upgrading the Firefox package to 106.0.2 has made no difference.

Nor have upgrades to 106.0.5 and 107.0.
>>> For whatever that's worth!
>>>
>>> -=-=-
>>> The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
>>> at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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From: le@top.put.com (Louis Epstein)
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Subject: Re: Firefox and FreeBSD versions
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 by: Louis Epstein - Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:56 UTC

Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>> Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>>>> In article <til9io$lkp$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>>>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <tiku2p$8ej$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>>>>>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> You don't have to build Firefox for FreeBSD12.3. It's available
>>>>>>>>>>> as a package.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>pkg install has not worked in recent attempts.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hmm. Don't know what to tell you then. I'm on 12.3 amd64 right now
>>>>>>>>> and firefox works for me.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>More specifically,every attempt to install it and launch gets
>>>>>>>>no further thnan an XPCOMGlueLoad error because the shared object
>>>>>>>>"libldap60.so" is not found so it can't load XPCOM.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well, libldap60.so is apparently not on my system either, but firefox
>>>>>>> is still happy, so I got nothing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Is libxul.so involved for you?
>>>>>>That is what is said to require libldap60.so .
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm sure you probably found this when you googled, but FWIW:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/firefox-will-not-launch.59758/
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> My system does have libxul.so in /usr/local/lib/firefox, so it's
>>>>> there in the firefox mix somewhere. However "ldd ./libxul.so" does
>>>>> not list libldap60.so (or any libldap version) as a dependancy.
>>>>
>>>> Well,with latest attempts to start Firefox a window does come up,
>>>> but it's non-responsive...two tabs are shown
>>>> about:sessionrestore
>>>> and
>>>> New Tab
>>>> but the screen is vacant and gray below,nothing loads...
>>>> trying to use the address bar gets a menu of recent sites
>>>> but attempting to select one does not load it,and any attempt
>>>> to use any tab gets the window from which I launched firefox&
>>>> filling with repetitions of
>>>>
>>>> Assertion failure
>>>> assert@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:500:36
>>>> preActions@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:567:10
>>>> handleEvent@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:1089:12
>>>> Assertion failure
>>>> assert@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:500:36
>>>> preActions@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:568:10
>>>> handleEvent@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:1089:12
>>>
>>> These apparently follow quickly on a complaint about sys/bus/pci
>>> and two of lacking libnss.so.3 and an associated program...the
>>> same old "couldn't load XPCOM" XPCOMGlueLoad errors.
>>>
>>
>> Upgrading the Firefox package to 106.0.2 has made no difference.
>
> Nor have upgrades to 106.0.5 and 107.0.

The guy who's been working with me says that I should go to FreeBSD 13.x
because of recent Firefox versions'incompatibilities with 12.x's /lib/libc.so.7
so does that make sense?

>>>> For whatever that's worth!
>>>>
>>>> -=-=-
>>>> The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
>>>> at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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 by: ted@loft.tnolan.com - Mon, 14 Nov 2022 22:17 UTC

In article <tkua18$qsn$2@reader2.panix.com>,
Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>> Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>>>>> In article <til9io$lkp$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>>>>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> In article <tiku2p$8ej$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>>>>>>>> Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> You don't have to build Firefox for FreeBSD12.3. It's available
>>>>>>>>>>>> as a package.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>pkg install has not worked in recent attempts.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hmm. Don't know what to tell you then. I'm on 12.3 amd64 right now
>>>>>>>>>> and firefox works for me.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>More specifically,every attempt to install it and launch gets
>>>>>>>>>no further thnan an XPCOMGlueLoad error because the shared object
>>>>>>>>>"libldap60.so" is not found so it can't load XPCOM.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Well, libldap60.so is apparently not on my system either, but firefox
>>>>>>>> is still happy, so I got nothing.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Is libxul.so involved for you?
>>>>>>>That is what is said to require libldap60.so .
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm sure you probably found this when you googled, but FWIW:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/firefox-will-not-launch.59758/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My system does have libxul.so in /usr/local/lib/firefox, so it's
>>>>>> there in the firefox mix somewhere. However "ldd ./libxul.so" does
>>>>>> not list libldap60.so (or any libldap version) as a dependancy.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well,with latest attempts to start Firefox a window does come up,
>>>>> but it's non-responsive...two tabs are shown
>>>>> about:sessionrestore
>>>>> and
>>>>> New Tab
>>>>> but the screen is vacant and gray below,nothing loads...
>>>>> trying to use the address bar gets a menu of recent sites
>>>>> but attempting to select one does not load it,and any attempt
>>>>> to use any tab gets the window from which I launched firefox&
>>>>> filling with repetitions of
>>>>>
>>>>> Assertion failure
>>>>> assert@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:500:36
>>>>> preActions@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:567:10
>>>>> handleEvent@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:1089:12
>>>>> Assertion failure
>>>>> assert@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:500:36
>>>>> preActions@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:568:10
>>>>> handleEvent@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:1089:12
>>>>
>>>> These apparently follow quickly on a complaint about sys/bus/pci
>>>> and two of lacking libnss.so.3 and an associated program...the
>>>> same old "couldn't load XPCOM" XPCOMGlueLoad errors.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Upgrading the Firefox package to 106.0.2 has made no difference.
>>
>> Nor have upgrades to 106.0.5 and 107.0.
>
>The guy who's been working with me says that I should go to FreeBSD 13.x
>because of recent Firefox versions'incompatibilities with 12.x's /lib/libc.so.7
>so does that make sense?
>

No. I am running Firefox 106.0.2 on FreeBSD 12.3 amd64 just fine.

I mean, a new OS install might break whatever cycle you are in, but
so might doing a clean reinstall of 12.3.
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