Re: GNU IceCat 2.0.0.10-g1 and use with the alternate profile option

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Thank you for the patch, I am going to apply it to our repository.

Giuseppe

address@hidden writes:

>> On 2007-12-04 00:44, address@hidden wrote:
>> > I did a confirmation test compile with the latest 2.0.0.11-g1 code and the
>> > resulting icecat script does need the changes to the icecat script after
>> > compiling ... <snip>
>
> On 12/4/07, inconnu <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'm puzzled that the icecat script resulting from your compile still
>> shows "run-mozilla.sh" instead of "run-icecat.sh" since I compiled from
>> 2.0.0.11-g1 source, applying a modification of my earlier hack script,
>> and got a fully functioning icecat script, pointing to run-icecat.sh.
>> Did you do the replacement for "run-mozilla.sh" in the source code
>> before compiling your latest test build:
>>  for i in `grep -irl run-icecat.sh ./*`; do
>> sed -i 's/run-icecat.sh/run-icecat.sh/g' $i;done
>
>
> No - that  test was compiled with the source code as provided to simulate the
> results of what someone who isn't aware of this thread would end up with.
>
> My other tests with 2.0.0.11-g1 code that tried to replace all
> run-mozilla.sh instances never successfully compiled so I resorted to
> editing icescript after the compile was finished.  But your question
> got me looking further and  it seems that the file causing the icecat
> script problem is "./browser/app/mozilla.in".
>
> Applying the change below to "./browser/app/mozilla.in" before
> compiling seems to address the resulting non-executable icecat script
> issue:
>
> sed -i 's/run-mozilla/run-icecat/g' ./browser/app/mozilla.in
>
> The diff output for the changes made with the above line applied is
> included at the end of this post. With this change applied to the
> current 2.0.0.11-g1 source & after compiling and packing, the
> resulting tarball unpacks with a functional icecat script.
>
>
>
>
> running multiple icecat versions simultaneously follow up:
>
> After further testing on this issue, two(or more) versions of icecat
> can run simultaneously and independently of each other if the
> additional ones are compiled with a different default profile folder
> location along with changes to the
> default "--with-distribution-id=org.gnu.gnuzilla" setting in
> .mozconfig (something unique for each version).  Changes for the
> default profile folder location  occur in
> ./browser/app.nsBrowserApp.cpp, not the .mozconfig
> "--with-user-appdir=<name>" . The mozconfig option can be changed to
> match the nsBrowserApp.cpp edit but it won't affect the outcome.
>
>
>
>
> mozilla.in  diff output below:
>
> --- ./browser/app/mozilla.in    2007-11-27 12:55:02.000000000 -0700
> +++ ./browser/app/mozilla.in    2007-12-05 08:09:51.000000000 -0700
> @@ -95,13 +95,13 @@ moz_pis_startstop_scripts()
>  moz_libdir=%MOZAPPDIR%
>  MRE_HOME=%MREDIR%
>
> -# Use run-mozilla.sh in the current dir if it exists
> -# If not, then start resolving symlinks until we find run-mozilla.sh
> +# Use run-icecat.sh in the current dir if it exists
> +# If not, then start resolving symlinks until we find run-icecat.sh
>  found=0
>  progname="$0"
>  curdir=`dirname "$progname"`
>  progbase=`basename "$progname"`
> -run_moz="$curdir/run-mozilla.sh"
> +run_moz="$curdir/run-icecat.sh"
>  if test -x "$run_moz"; then
>    dist_bin="$curdir"
>    found=1
> @@ -116,11 +116,11 @@ else
>        break
>      fi
>      curdir=`dirname "$progname"`
> -    run_moz="$curdir/run-mozilla.sh"
> +    run_moz="$curdir/run-icecat.sh"
>      if [ -x "$run_moz" ]; then
>        cd "$curdir"
>        dist_bin=`pwd`
> -      run_moz="$dist_bin/run-mozilla.sh"
> +      run_moz="$dist_bin/run-icecat.sh"
>        found=1
>        break
>      fi
> @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ else
>  fi
>  if [ $found = 0 ]; then
>    # Check default compile-time libdir
> -  if [ -x "$moz_libdir/run-mozilla.sh" ]; then
> +  if [ -x "$moz_libdir/run-icecat.sh" ]; then
>      dist_bin="$moz_libdir"
>    else
>      echo "Cannot find mozilla runtime directory. Exiting."
> @@ -179,9 +179,9 @@ moz_pis_startstop_scripts "start"
>
>  if [ $debugging = 1 ]
>  then
> -  echo $dist_bin/run-mozilla.sh $script_args $dist_bin/$MOZILLA_BIN "$@"
> +  echo $dist_bin/run-icecat.sh $script_args $dist_bin/$MOZILLA_BIN "$@"
>  fi
> -"$dist_bin/run-mozilla.sh" $script_args "$dist_bin/$MOZILLA_BIN" "$@"
> +"$dist_bin/run-icecat.sh" $script_args "$dist_bin/$MOZILLA_BIN" "$@"
>  exitcode=$?
>
>  ## Stop addon scripts
>
>
> --
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