On 4/26/2015 4:27 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> Thank you. Is there any description for the build difficulties >> available anywhere? I would like to try my hand at it (though given >> my nonexistent familiarity with the Firefox code base I don't expect >> much). > > I’ll cc the past maintainer of the firefoxN packages, since he knows why he > stopped bothering. :-)
At firefox9, upstream changed too many assumptions in the code that a Darwin system must mean using the quartz frontend. and it became impossible to disentangle code paths that were about the underlying Mac system from stuff that dealt with using Quartz to draw stuff. Macports also gave up at the same time w/ their firefox-x11 package. And firefox8 got restricted to < 10.9 because it doesn't play well with libc++. You're welcome to try making a new firefox37, but I haven't even looked at the code in over 3 years and have no idea how the mozilla build system works these days. Hanspeter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
