Re: GNU IceCat 4.0 RC1

[Pablo S. Casas]

   In my case, compilation of IceCat 3.6.x in Mandriva 2010.2 is
completely automatic without problems. However, for IceCat 4.0 RC1
compilation has been hard, because I have to modify .mozconfig:

1) Commenting out: ac_add_options --with-system-png
2) Modify --with-java-bin-path=%{java_home}/bin to
   --with-java-bin-path=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/bin 

In addition I have to compile new versions of some packages:
nss-3.12.9, libnspr4-4.8.7, uClibc-0.9.30.3, libpng3-1.2.44,
libsqlite3_0-3.7.5, libpixman-1_0-0.20.2, libcairo2-1.10.2.

After several tries everything compiled fine and IceCat 4.0 RC1 works
well, but a few issues not present in 3.6.x versions:

1) When IceCat is started, neither previous tabs are present, nor the
   position of the main window is saved.

2) Markers previously shown in the main window disappeared. They are
   recovered using the "home" icon -> customize.

3) In some cases the main menu and the option of 2) are greyed out, so
   they not available. Other times they work normally.

   Are some of you experiencing any of those problems?

On 03/24/2011 08:17, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have just uploaded an experimental version of IceCat based on the new
> Firefox 4.0 for brave users.
> 
> It is available here:
> 
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/4.0-rc1/icecat-4.0-rc1.tar.bz2
> 
> and the GPG detached signatures using the key C03363F4:
> 
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/4.0-rc1/icecat-4.0-rc1.tar.bz2.sig
> 
> Binaries are not available, brave users have a compiler ;-)
> 
> This release is likely to have many problems, please report them on this
> mailing list.
> 
> Have fun!
> Giuseppe