Bug 220581

Summary:	www/firefox depends on kitchen sink
Product:	Ports & Packages	Reporter:	Andy <bsd>
Component:	Individual Port(s)	Assignee:	freebsd-gecko (Nobody) <gecko>
Status:	Closed DUPLICATE
Severity:	Affects Only Me	Flags:	jbeich: maintainer-feedback+
Priority:	---
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Andy 2017-07-09 16:02:55 UTC

More recent firefox build removed toolkit option (April 11, 438318 by jbeich) so there is no way to build it without pulling in the entire linux/freedesktop world.  That is due entirely to gtk3's tightly coupled integration with atk which demands dbus.  So the firefox 'dbus' option is totally irrelevant now since it is always pulled in.  Is gtk3 really that necessary?  If so it should be patched to remove the atk/dbus dependency, or just add gtk2 support back to FF.

Comment 1 Jan Beich freebsd_committer

2017-07-09 16:32:51 UTC

Gtk2 build is broken[1] and unmaintained upstream but Gtk3 has a patch to build without DBus in a separate bug.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1278282#c19

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 194460 ***

Comment 2 Andy 2017-07-09 17:47:18 UTC

Such a quick reply, and on a Sunday!  Thanks, I will monitor the gtk3 patch you linked to, that looks very promising (and uplifting).  When I looked at manually removing atk from gtk3 I almost fainted due to tight coupling.