Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Building Icecat 60.3.0 on macOS Mojave 10.14.1

[Johannes Marbach]

Turns out the black screen is an upstream issue in Firefox 
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1494022). Official versions are 
currently compiled with the macOS SDK 10.11 (which is more than 3 years old). I 
had 10.14 (the currently latest version) installed locally which is apparently 
not compatible.

I fetched the 10.11 SDK from https://github.com/phracker/MacOSX-SDKs, linked it 
into 
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs
 and then ran configure with

env CXX='/usr/bin/clang++ -stdlib=libc++' ../configure --with-l10n-base=../l10n 
--enable-official-branding 
--with-macos-sdk=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.11.sdk

Note the last argument that forces the old SDK. Afterwards make and make 
package et voilà: habemus Icecat on Mac. Eat that Apple! :)

Now, having gone through this odyssey, I feel somewhat obliged to making this 
easier for other people who have (or want) to use a Mac. I suppose being an 
unknown outsider, GNUzilla wouldn't be interested in hosting my .dmg of Icecat 
on their site, right? Does anyone have thoughts on what the most appropriate 
way to share this would be? Maybe I could collect my modifications as patches 
in a GitHub repository and attach the .dmg when tagging a release?

> On January 18, 2019 at 10:42 AM Johannes Marbach <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
> Ok, I managed to make that error disappear by adding the following to 
> security/sandbox/mac/Sandbox.h
> 
> (allow file-read* (path "/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ViewBridge.plist"))
> 
> However, Icecat still shows an all black window so that wasn't it. Here is 
> the full terminal output when I run it, I'm unable to pinpoint anything 
> important in there though. :(
> 
> $ ./icecat
> 1547801629032 addons.webextension.<unknown>   WARN    Loading extension 
> 'null': Reading manifest: Error processing id: An unexpected property was 
> found in the WebExtension manifest.
> 1547801629095 addons.xpi-utils        WARN    addMetadata: Add-on 
> address@hidden is invalid: Error: Invalid addon ID: expected addon ID 
> address@hidden, found address@hidden in manifest 
> (resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm -> 
> resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProviderUtils.js:1171:15) JS Stack trace: 
> address@hidden:1171:15
> address@hidden:1523:23
> address@hidden:3289:34
> address@hidden:2194:25
> address@hidden:253:12
> address@hidden:728:5
> address@hidden:892:9
> address@hidden:2976:5
> address@hidden:63:9
> 1547801629096 addons.xpi-utils        WARN    Could not uninstall invalid 
> item from locked install location
> 1547801629546 address@hidden  WARN    Loading extension 'address@hidden': 
> Reading manifest: Error processing id: An unexpected property was found in 
> the WebExtension manifest.
> 1547801629553 address@hidden  WARN    Loading extension 'address@hidden': 
> Reading manifest: Error processing id: An unexpected property was found in 
> the WebExtension manifest.
> 1547801629558 address@hidden  WARN    Loading extension 'address@hidden': 
> Reading manifest: Error processing id: An unexpected property was found in 
> the WebExtension manifest.
> 1547801629559 address@hidden  WARN    Loading extension 'address@hidden': 
> Reading manifest: Error processing id: An unexpected property was found in 
> the WebExtension manifest.
> 2019-01-18 08:53:50.282 plugin-container[29303:2259390] *** CFMessagePort: 
> bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c) 'Permission denied', port = 0xad2f, 
> name = 'com.apple.tsm.portname'
> See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.
> 2019-01-18 08:53:50.511 plugin-container[29303:2259390] *** CFMessagePort: 
> bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c) 'Permission denied', port = 0xa7b, 
> name = 'com.apple.coredrag'
> See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.
> 2019-01-18 08:53:50.575 plugin-container[29304:2259445] *** CFMessagePort: 
> bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c) 'Permission denied', port = 0x883b, 
> name = 'com.apple.tsm.portname'
> See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.
> 2019-01-18 08:53:50.576 plugin-container[29303:2259391] +[NSXPCSharedListener 
> endpointForReply:withListenerName:]: an error occurred while attempting to 
> obtain endpoint for listener 'ClientCallsAuxiliary': Connection invalid
> JavaScript error: resource://activity-stream/lib/Screenshots.jsm, line 102: 
> TypeError: cache is undefined
> JavaScript error: resource://activity-stream/lib/Screenshots.jsm, line 102: 
> TypeError: cache is undefined
> JavaScript error: resource://activity-stream/lib/Screenshots.jsm, line 102: 
> TypeError: cache is undefined
> JavaScript error: resource://activity-stream/lib/Screenshots.jsm, line 102: 
> TypeError: cache is undefined
> JavaScript error: resource://activity-stream/lib/Screenshots.jsm, line 102: 
> TypeError: cache is undefined
> 2019-01-18 08:53:50.707 plugin-container[29304:2259445] *** CFMessagePort: 
> bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c) 'Permission denied', port = 0x1277, 
> name = 'com.apple.coredrag'
> See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.
> 2019-01-18 08:53:50.725 plugin-container[29304:2259454] +[NSXPCSharedListener 
> endpointForReply:withListenerName:]: an error occurred while attempting to 
> obtain endpoint for listener 'ClientCallsAuxiliary': Connection invalid
> 1547801630929 address@hidden  WARN    Please specify whether you want 
> browser_style or not in your browser_action options.
> 1547801631357 address@hidden  WARN    Please specify whether you want 
> browser_style or not in your browser_action options.
> 2019-01-18 08:53:51.476 plugin-container[29305:2259508] *** CFMessagePort: 
> bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c) 'Permission denied', port = 0x843b, 
> name = 'com.apple.tsm.portname'
> See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.
> 2019-01-18 08:53:51.592 plugin-container[29305:2259508] *** CFMessagePort: 
> bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c) 'Permission denied', port = 0x1277, 
> name = 'com.apple.coredrag'
> See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.
> 2019-01-18 08:53:51.605 plugin-container[29305:2259516] +[NSXPCSharedListener 
> endpointForReply:withListenerName:]: an error occurred while attempting to 
> obtain endpoint for listener 'ClientCallsAuxiliary': Connection invalid
> 
> > On January 18, 2019 at 9:52 AM Johannes Marbach <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Forgot to add one important piece needed to make it compile here: After 
> > installing the CLI developer tools, I had to manually go to 
> > /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Packages and install the header package.
> > 
> > > On January 18, 2019 at 9:36 AM Johannes Marbach <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I wanted to follow up on a thread from last week where Brennan and 
> > > Jean-Christophe discussed building Icecat 60.3.0 on macOS (I can't reply 
> > > to the old thread because I just joined the list and my web mailer 
> > > doesn't let me set the In-Reply-To header).
> > > 
> > > I've been struggling with this on macOS Mojave 10.14.1, too, for some 
> > > time now. First I couldn't get configure and make to work because they'd 
> > > always fail with missing includes. I finally got it to compile by using
> > > 
> > > env CXX='/usr/bin/clang++ -stdlib=libc++' ../configure 
> > > --with-l10n-base=../l10n --enable-official-branding
> > > make
> > > 
> > > Note that I have to use env because my shell is fish. Afterwards make 
> > > package failed with the missing files errors Brennan reported.
> > > 
> > > Error: 
> > > /Users/jmarbach/Code/icecat/icecat-60.3.0/browser/installer/package-manifest.in:593:
> > >  Missing file(s): 
> > > /IceCat.app/Contents/MacOS/browser/extensions/address@hidden/*
> > > Error: 
> > > /Users/jmarbach/Code/icecat/icecat-60.3.0/browser/installer/package-manifest.in:594:
> > >  Missing file(s): 
> > > /IceCat.app/Contents/MacOS/browser/extensions/address@hidden/*
> > > ...
> > > 
> > > I found the files existed but not in IceCat.app/Contents/MacOS but in 
> > > IceCat.app/Contents/Resources. So I went into 
> > > browser/installer/package-manifest.in and replaced @BINPATH@ with 
> > > @RESPATH@ on lines 593 through 604. That finally made make package go 
> > > through.
> > > 
> > > However, after installing the .dmg and launching Icecat it just sits 
> > > there with an all black window. There's a bit of output on the terminal 
> > > but the only important thing to me seems this
> > > 
> > > 2019-01-18 08:15:45.325 plugin-container[25006:2228360] unable to obtain 
> > > configuration from file:///Library/Preferences/com.apple.ViewBridge.plist 
> > > due to Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=257 "The file 
> > > “com.apple.ViewBridge.plist” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have 
> > > permission to view it." 
> > > UserInfo={NSFilePath=/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ViewBridge.plist, 
> > > NSUnderlyingError=0x10b9ec250 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=1 
> > > "Operation not permitted"}}
> > > 
> > > I found a reference to this in the tor browser project 
> > > (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/20989) and it sounds 
> > > like it may be related to app sand boxing being configured too strict. 
> > > However, I'm unsure on how to apply their fix to Icecat (or if this is 
> > > the actual culprit).
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have any pointers on what I could do from here?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Johannes
> > > 
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