Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Building Icecat

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

Brennan,

Thanks for trying the macOS instructions. I'm the one who wrote them.

I was planning to try them with 60 but did not find the time. So I really appreciate your feedback.

Please keep us updated.

Jean-Christophe 

On Jan 8, 2019, at 6:56, Brennan Benkert <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi all,

I know macOS isn't a high priority platform, but I wanted to give the new version of Icecat a shot. I've used the instructions for building Icecat on macOS successfully for previous versions: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:IceCat/Compile_and_package/build_52.6.0_on_macOS

So, naturally I went for it using the same instructions with the current version (60.3.0 as of writing). First there was a complaint that rust was not installed, so I installed rust using the suggested method of using rustup.rs

Next there was an issue finding LLVM, so I installed LLVM using Homebrew. After this the make process completed successfully so I ran make package. Naturally it failed, throwing a bunch of errors like:

Missing file(s): /IceCat.app/Contents/MacOS/browser/extensions/address@hidden/

Also, there is this final few lines:

mozpack.errors.AccumulatedErrors

make[3]: *** [stage-package] Error 1

make[2]: *** [make-package] Error 2

make[1]: *** [default] Error 2

make: *** [package] Error 2

I tried the entire process a couple times, and did a little searching for the meaning of the errors, before I was ready to give up. When I went to change my default browser, it showed Icecat 60.3.0 as the current default!

So here I am with Icecat 60.3.0 working on my Mac, in spite of the errors during make package. As some of you could probably guess, I'm stuck running this app out of the /dist folder. Any thoughts on what is happening, and why I'm able to run the app in spite of the errors seen?

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