From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] DRAFT: gnu: icecat: Update to 52.0.2-gnu1; add fixes from ESR 52.1. Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:44:46 +0000 Message-ID: <20170420194446.emgpofikj5uwfnbq@abyayala> References: <87wpafttg7.fsf@netris.org> <877f2fgljn.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34167) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d1I0e-00057U-7h for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:44:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d1I0a-0008Hi-4j for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:44:56 -0400 Received: from perdizione.investici.org ([94.23.50.208]:49783) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d1I0Z-0008Gj-RW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:44:52 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <877f2fgljn.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Maxim Cournoyer Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Maxim Cournoyer transcribed 1.8K bytes: > Hi Mark! > > Mark H Weaver writes: > > > Hello Guix, > > > > Here's a draft patch to update GNU IceCat to 52.0.2-gnu1, with > > additional fixes cherry-picked from upstream ESR 52.1. It seems to work > > well on my system, except that my GNOME 3 session has locked up a couple > > of times while testing it[*]. I'm not yet sure whether the problem is > > caused by IceCat or something else. I'd appreciate it if other people > > could try it out. > > [...] > > > I've also attached a patch to add autoconf-2.13 (from 1999!), since it > > appears to be a build requirement of IceCat 52.x. I haven't tested it > > for anything except building IceCat. > > Thanks for working on this. I'd reckon you first tried using current > autoconf before resorting to using this 1999 flavor? I'm having a hard > time understanding why such old software could be made a hard > requirement :) > > Maxim Sometimes logic doesn't apply to development. I packaged the very same version when I was working on palemoon-browser because they somehow depended on it. -- PGP and more: https://people.pragmatique.xyz/ng0/