Maxim Cournoyer transcribed 1.8K bytes: > Hi Mark! > > Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes: > > > Hello Guix, > > > > Here's a draft patch to update GNU IceCat to 52.0.2-gnu1, with > > additional fixes cherry-picked from upstream ESR 52.1. It seems to work > > well on my system, except that my GNOME 3 session has locked up a couple > > of times while testing it[*]. I'm not yet sure whether the problem is > > caused by IceCat or something else. I'd appreciate it if other people > > could try it out. > > [...] > > > I've also attached a patch to add autoconf-2.13 (from 1999!), since it > > appears to be a build requirement of IceCat 52.x. I haven't tested it > > for anything except building IceCat. > > Thanks for working on this. I'd reckon you first tried using current > autoconf before resorting to using this 1999 flavor? I'm having a hard > time understanding why such old software could be made a hard > requirement :) > > Maxim
Sometimes logic doesn't apply to development. I packaged the very same version when I was working on palemoon-browser because they somehow depended on it. -- PGP and more: https://people.pragmatique.xyz/ng0/
