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 >
