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From: | Sam Geeraerts |
Subject: | Re: GNU IceCat for mipsel: bugs? |
Date: | Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:34:06 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100415) |
Christophe Jarry wrote:
You should have used autoconf2.13 instead of autoconf. Mozilla dev page says [1]: The configure script is a bash shell script; the file is generated from a file called configure.in which is written with M4 and processed using Autoconf 2.13 to create the final script. Note: Mozilla uses an old version of autoconf, because modern versions removed features that are necessary for our build system.
I haven't tried building Iceweasel myself yet, but I assume it doesn't have this problem. So that means for gNewSense that we'll have to continue the path suggested in [1] and apply IceCat patches to Iceweasel instead of using IceCat straight.
Does Mozilla plan to work with newer versions of autotools? Requiring a version that old seems a bit silly to me. Does Mozilla have a bug report about this?
I'm seeing less benefit to gNewSense now to try and reproduce your bugs, but I might try again when I have some more time.
[1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?28177
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