Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Building Icecat 60.3.0 on macOS Mojave 10.14.1

[Johannes Marbach]

Forgot to add one important piece needed to make it compile here: After 
installing the CLI developer tools, I had to manually go to 
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Packages and install the header package.

> On January 18, 2019 at 9:36 AM Johannes Marbach <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I wanted to follow up on a thread from last week where Brennan and 
> Jean-Christophe discussed building Icecat 60.3.0 on macOS (I can't reply to 
> the old thread because I just joined the list and my web mailer doesn't let 
> me set the In-Reply-To header).
> 
> I've been struggling with this on macOS Mojave 10.14.1, too, for some time 
> now. First I couldn't get configure and make to work because they'd always 
> fail with missing includes. I finally got it to compile by using
> 
> env CXX='/usr/bin/clang++ -stdlib=libc++' ../configure 
> --with-l10n-base=../l10n --enable-official-branding
> make
> 
> Note that I have to use env because my shell is fish. Afterwards make package 
> failed with the missing files errors Brennan reported.
> 
> Error: 
> /Users/jmarbach/Code/icecat/icecat-60.3.0/browser/installer/package-manifest.in:593:
>  Missing file(s): 
> /IceCat.app/Contents/MacOS/browser/extensions/address@hidden/*
> Error: 
> /Users/jmarbach/Code/icecat/icecat-60.3.0/browser/installer/package-manifest.in:594:
>  Missing file(s): 
> /IceCat.app/Contents/MacOS/browser/extensions/address@hidden/*
> ...
> 
> I found the files existed but not in IceCat.app/Contents/MacOS but in 
> IceCat.app/Contents/Resources. So I went into 
> browser/installer/package-manifest.in and replaced @BINPATH@ with @RESPATH@ 
> on lines 593 through 604. That finally made make package go through.
> 
> However, after installing the .dmg and launching Icecat it just sits there 
> with an all black window. There's a bit of output on the terminal but the 
> only important thing to me seems this
> 
> 2019-01-18 08:15:45.325 plugin-container[25006:2228360] unable to obtain 
> configuration from file:///Library/Preferences/com.apple.ViewBridge.plist due 
> to Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=257 "The file 
> “com.apple.ViewBridge.plist” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have 
> permission to view it." 
> UserInfo={NSFilePath=/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ViewBridge.plist, 
> NSUnderlyingError=0x10b9ec250 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=1 
> "Operation not permitted"}}
> 
> I found a reference to this in the tor browser project 
> (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/20989) and it sounds like it 
> may be related to app sand boxing being configured too strict. However, I'm 
> unsure on how to apply their fix to Icecat (or if this is the actual culprit).
> 
> Does anyone have any pointers on what I could do from here?
> 
> Thanks,
> Johannes
> 
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