MacOSX unofficial nightly builds

jtalkington · Post by **jtalkington** » August 9th, 2003, 7:41 pm

I'm posting <a href="http://smartasfuck.com/mozilla/">unofficial nightly builds for MacOSX</a> until the official ones get back on track. These are getting posted right after they are built, and I'm not saving any of the previous builds, so backup your working version before trying these out.

Update:
I just <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216908">filed a bug to get configure.in fixed</a>. That should clear up a bunch of confusion about getting this to build without linking with /sw/lib/libiconv.dylib.

Post by **shadytrees** » August 10th, 2003, 3:38 am

Should this be a sticky?

GCG · Post by **GCG** » August 10th, 2003, 7:44 am

Well...I am using your "Unofficial Nightly Build" of FB as my default under OS 10.2.6. You have done an excellent job with this version of FB. It's nice to be able to keep pace again with other platform versions of FB. Thanks for filling a real need for this Mac FB user. :badgrin:

Hendikins · Post by **Hendikins** » August 10th, 2003, 9:49 am

hao2lian wrote:Should this be a sticky?

Tentative sticky. Will drop it once we have official nightlys again.

Silvorgold · Post by **Silvorgold** » August 10th, 2003, 3:33 pm

Since my mac is getting repaired and I'm stuck on my pc, I cant wait to try out this build of firebird, I'm on a 28.8 connection and it's about time there's a build (official or unofficial) that's under 10MB

jtalkington · Post by **jtalkington** » August 10th, 2003, 4:38 pm

Silvorgold wrote:Since my mac is getting repaired and I'm stuck on my pc, I cant wait to try out this build of firebird, I'm on a 28.8 connection and it's about time there's a build (official or unofficial) that's under 10MB

Don't get your hopes up to high, though. I just realized that I built it dynamic, so it won't work if you don't have fink and the dependencies install. Look for a new static (and larger) version soon.

mbi · Post by **mbi** » August 12th, 2003, 11:46 pm

It's nice to be able to run nightlies again, specially now that MacFB bugs start being fixed again.
I think this hasn't been stressed enough yet, so here we go: <b>thank you very much</b> for your CPU cycles and bandwidth!

-mbi

GCG · Post by **GCG** » August 15th, 2003, 12:52 pm

In have Fink installed and your latest 20030807 (dated 11 Aug on your "sticky" page) works nicely. I especially like the implementation of the "Advanced Preferences Frame" for the Mac; including: SSL and TSL, as I am trying FB for various transactions requiring these security layers. Thanks again for your efforts, they are appreciated!

unruly · Post by **unruly** » August 15th, 2003, 5:23 pm

It would appear that saving images in the earlier version you posted is broken, I'll be trying the new version shortly.

Edit: Yep, still no image save-as.

Edit Edit: It appears there's a new version up

Silvorgold · Post by **Silvorgold** » August 16th, 2003, 11:52 pm

downloaded yesterday's nightly that was on that server (13mb i think, might be a bit smaller) and it crashed each time i tried to get it to work.

this is the following crash log:

Date/Time: 2003-08-16 04:08:38 -0500
OS Version: 10.2.6 (Build 6L60)
Host: Codys-Computer.local.

Command: MozillaFirebird-bin
PID: 597

Exception: EXC_BREAKPOINT (0x0006)
Code[0]: 0x00000001Code[1]: 0x8fe01280

Thread 0 Crashed:
#0 0x8fe01280 in halt
#1 0x8fe0329c in load_library_image
#2 0x8fe06134 in load_images_libraries
#3 0x8fe026e8 in load_executable_image
#4 0x8fe01410 in _dyld_init

PPC Thread State:
srr0: 0x8fe01280 srr1: 0x0002f030 vrsave: 0x00000000
xer: 0x20000000 lr: 0x8fe0a064 ctr: 0x8fe28f78 mq: 0x00000000
r0: 0x00000004 r1: 0xbffffb90 r2: 0x2800428c r3: 0x00000099
r4: 0x00000000 r5: 0x00000099 r6: 0x0000290a r7: 0x726e6f20
r8: 0x66696c65 r9: 0x00000000 r10: 0xbffff90b r11: 0x00000026
r12: 0x8fe71ac1 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00002080 r15: 0x00000000
r16: 0xbffffe34 r17: 0x00000001 r18: 0x000015d0 r19: 0x00001af8
r20: 0x00000001 r21: 0x00000000 r22: 0x00000000 r23: 0x00000000
r24: 0x00e8f2dc r25: 0x00000002 r26: 0x00000002 r27: 0x00000000
r28: 0x00001818 r29: 0x00000000 r30: 0x8fe484d8 r31: 0x8fe09ecc

Kevin · Post by **Kevin** » August 20th, 2003, 7:06 am

First of all, I'd remove these two lines from your .mozconfig, as they aren't necessary

ac_add_options --enable-macos-target=10.2
ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=mac

also the enable-static line..

After you build, you have to package it for distribution. You do this by doing "make" in xpinstall/packager. When I did this I had to edit the Makefile to get it to work. Open the "Makefile" file and replace all instances of "mozilla-bin" with "MozillaFirebird-bin". Then do a "make" in that directory. It will fail and generate an error, but it fails *after* it has built the application. It'll leave a "Mozilla Firebird" application in the dist/mozilla directory that should contain all libraries, not just the shortcuts. This is a hack, but it seems to work

Kevin

Edit: Here's the relevant Bugzilla bug
<a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173770">Bug 173770: xpinstall/packager cannot package Mozilla Firebird</a>

jtalkington · Post by **jtalkington** » August 20th, 2003, 1:39 pm

Kevin wrote:After you build, you have to package it for distribution. You do this by doing "make" in xpinstall/packager. When I did this I had to edit the Makefile to get it to work. Open the "Makefile" file and replace all instances of "mozilla-bin" with "MozillaFirebird-bin". Then do a "make" in that directory. It will fail and generate an error, but it fails *after* it has built the application. It'll leave a "Mozilla Firebird" application in the dist/mozilla directory that should contain all libraries, not just the shortcuts. This is a hack, but it seems to work :)

Yes, I was able to get this working, thanks. I was just doing a cp -rL, which seems to work fine also.

Kevin wrote:Edit: Here's the relevant Bugzilla bug
<a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173770">Bug 173770: xpinstall/packager cannot package Mozilla Firebird</a>

I'll see what I can do to make a patch for this.

GCG · Post by **GCG** » August 20th, 2003, 2:42 pm

Hi-
jtalkington's 20000820 release works like a charm! Thanks, this IS the best Mac release of FB to date! Nice Job!

GCG · Post by **GCG** » August 20th, 2003, 2:46 pm

GCG wrote:Hi-
jtalkington's 20000820 release works like a charm! Thanks, this IS the best Mac release of FB to date! Nice Job!

Sorry I screwed up the release date! It should be: 20030820! (I got too excited!) LOL!

jeffgman · Post by **jeffgman** » August 21st, 2003, 10:19 am

Kevin wrote:After you build, you have to package it for distribution. You do this by doing "make" in xpinstall/packager. When I did this I had to edit the Makefile to get it to work. Open the "Makefile" file and replace all instances of "mozilla-bin" with "MozillaFirebird-bin". Then do a "make" in that directory. It will fail and generate an error, but it fails *after* it has built the application. It'll leave a "Mozilla Firebird" application in the dist/mozilla directory that should contain all libraries, not just the shortcuts. This is a hack, but it seems to work

I was unable to get this to work. I went into the Makefile in xpinstall/packager and changed two references of "mozilla-bin" to MozillaFirebird-bin" and did a make. It said something about could not get file via rsync and gave an error. The file dist/MozillaFirebird.app was still the one without the libraries. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jeff