Re: IceCat-78.2 preview on 'wip-icecat-78' branch; need icedove-78.

[Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>]

On 22.09.20 21:00, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote:
> On 15.09.20 12:52, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> Hi Jonathan,
>>
>> Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de> writes:
>>> I had a look. It's at the moment two WIP patches here:
>>> https://gitlab.com/jonsger/Guix/-/tree/wip-icedove-78
>>
>> Thanks very much for working on it.
>>
>>> Icedove 78 needs nss >= 3.53.1 and we have only 3.52.1.
>>
>> An easy solution for now would be to use the bundled NSS, by simply
>> removing --with-system-nss from the mozconfig and removing 'nss' from
>> the inputs.  What do you think?
>
> In the mean time I got icedove 78 working. The two patches are attached.
>
> gnu: Add nss@3.56.
> - It's basically like nss 3.52.1 apart from two files are gone in
> 'install phase. The only way I found is to copy all phases over and
> remove those two lines.
> ```
> (delete-file (string-append lib "/libgtest1.so"))
> (delete-file (string-append lib "/libgtestutil.so"))
> ```
> - nss-3.56-pkgconfig.patch is like nss-pkgconfig.patch with only
> difference in a slightly adjusted nss/manifest.mn diff. I don't know how
> to do that more elegant
>
> gnu: icedove: Update to 78.2.2.
> - Mostly house keeping and some updates of components. To get icedove
> run properly we need icedove-78-fix-new-page.patch, otherwise it's
> completely broken. I found no other way to add it, then to use the
> release tarball instead of the icecat sources.
>
> ~Jonathan
> Sent from Icedove 78 :P

I updated the patches in the mean time for 78.3.0, see
http://issues.guix.gnu.org/43647