Hi Christophe, bin/extensions/* shouldn't be empty. Can you please repeat the whole process (fetch sources from svn, copy them over firefox, execute make.icecat, configure, make) from scratch?
Thanks, Giuseppe Christophe Jarry <[email protected]> writes: > Dear developers, > > Yesterday, I tried to merge the code of IceCat 3.6.13 with the latest > improvements from the SVN repository. All went fine until I did a `make > install`, which gave me the following error message: > > /usr/bin/perl ../../xpinstall/packager/xptlink.pl -s ../../dist > -d ../../dist/xpt -f ../../dist/icecat//components -v -x > " /usr/src/icecat/icecat-3.6.13/dist/bin/xpt_link" > Error: destination directory "../../dist/xpt" is not a directory or is not > writeable. See '../../xpinstall/packager/xptlink.pl --help' for more > information. > Exiting... > make[1]: *** [stage-package] Error 2 > make[1]: leaving directory > "/usr/src/icecat/icecat-3.6.13/browser/installer" > make: *** [install] Error 2 > > Actually icecat-3.6.13/dist/xpt did not even exist! > > I found the origin of this problem: it comes from the following line in > SVN's trunk/icecat/browser/installer/packages-static (or > browser/installer/packages-static once merged): > > bin/extensions/* > > After I commented this line by appending a "#" at its beginning, I did: > > make > make install > > And this time all went fine and the browser could be launched with `icecat`. > > Please fix this problem that comes from revision 132 of > http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/icecat/browser/installer/packages-static?root=gnuzilla&view=log. > > Christophe > > -- > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
