TenFourFox on Intel

[Ken Cunningham]

Hi Riccardo,

I have installed your config and patches,  reset the build system, and I have things building.

Will see how it goes!

Best, Ken



On 2018-01-05, at 3:53 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> Hi Ken,
> 
> Riccardo Mottola via macports-users wrote:
>> I actually use a different one, it is not commited (*), I attach it here.
>> It disables several problematic features: The goal is currently to "finish the build" and see if we start up the browser.
>> Slowly we can then debug enable things again, but with a priority.
>> It makes no sense to concentrate on the first issue found when there are maybe other important features missing.
>> 
>>  
> 
> Did you get my patches and build configuration I sent you off-list?
> 
> How fare do you get now? I'm still stuck at the same point before Christmas
> 
> 
> Riccardo
>> 
>> The miracle didn't happen yet :)
>> 
>> I attach some other local patches whcich are either mere hacks or written in a way upsteam does not approve.
>> 
>> 1) stuff to disable SSE2 and AVX2 in libvpx
>> 2) patch to disable SKIA completely. It is disabled on current PPC builds, might be difficult to enable in the future
>> 3) patch to work around some libstdc++ namespace issues. Perhaps there are better ways, it is very strange that TT maintainer does NOT have this issues, while from some bug I found in GCC and MacPorts they look like issues with older OS's. My guess is that a newer version of GCC might help. I think the GCC headers are not correctly working around the missing functions because "something" is not enabled. The patch comes out of the GCC 4.8 headers themselves, but without the ifdef's inside
>> 
>> Since you need to pach configure, I am sorry, but you need to remove your build directory and restart from scatch.
> 
> You may apply them blindly or check them one by one. For SKIA you can trust me, AVX2 is possibly compiler and configuration related, if you use gcc 4.8 as suggested, go with that one to.
> The patch 3) about libstcc is very interesting, since the maintainer doesn't needed it. You could try without.
> 
>> (**) I just found out that my Mailer GNUMail currently chokes on attachments... will send you them in a different way. More details on that Later
> 
> Fixed that too :)
> 
> Riccardo