Re: GNU IceCat for mipsel: bugs?

[Sam Geeraerts]

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