Thanks. 

You are building on 10.5 Intel still I believe.

I'll see how it works on my 10.5 Intel system. Will help if I can.

I appreciate your efforts so far.

Best,

Ken




On 2017-12-27, at 2:57 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 2017-12-11 17:44:24 +0100 Ken Cunningham <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> I'm very interested.
> 
> Very good. I need some help now!
> Anybody else? :)
> 
>> I have a Portfile I started here for TenFourFox:
>> https://github.com/kencu/myports/tree/master/www/tenfourfox
>> It builds to a certain point and then hits an error. Forget what it was just 
>> now. But it's a good starting point.
> 
> The build shouls be relatively simple now: once all dependencies are 
> installed "gmake -f client.mk build" should be sufficient.
> 
> Check here:
> https://github.com/classilla/tenfourfox/wiki/HowToBuildFPR
> 
> add yasm to the dependencies.
> 
> My build follows that and the goal is to merge almost everything in the 
> original repository.
> 
> Currently I work on my own for which eases pull request, I encourage you to 
> try it out:
> 
> https://github.com/rmottola/tenfourfox
> 
> A lot of work went in. Many problematic features are disabled now, I want to 
> get a completing build as a first thing.
> However, currently, I get a very strange Make error which I am not able to 
> track down and fix.
> Help appreciated! I can code, but these complex makefiles interwined with 
> python are hard for me.
> 
>> At present I use Firefox at present on 10.6.8 (Firefox ESR 45.9.0). It works 
>> just great on 10.6.8.
>> https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/45.9.0esr/
> 
> Me too on newer computers, while on 10.5/Intel the situation is a disaster.
> I am using  very old version of TenFourFox which did run on Intel, but v17 is 
> today very limited, giving rendeing issues as well as TLS issues, which is an 
> issue for me.
> 
>> Also available is webkit2-gtk (I have 2.18.0 running) and epiphany. These 
>> work well also. Current versions in same repo above. I will put together a 
>> PR to update it on MacPorts once a few final systems build it (getting a few 
>> systems to build something is easy -- getting them all to build it is 
>> harder).
> 
> Interesting, then you do run Midori, e.g. ? If the GTK look can be made 
> somehow native (see my GIMP comments) it would be an intersting alternative. 
> But time being, I think TenFourFox will give us the most "Mac" experience.
> 
> RIccardo
> 

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