[Bug-gnuzilla] Building Icecat 60.3.0 on macOS Mojave 10.14.1

[Johannes Marbach]

Hi all,

I wanted to follow up on a thread from last week where Brennan and 
Jean-Christophe discussed building Icecat 60.3.0 on macOS (I can't reply to the 
old thread because I just joined the list and my web mailer doesn't let me set 
the In-Reply-To header).

I've been struggling with this on macOS Mojave 10.14.1, too, for some time now. 
First I couldn't get configure and make to work because they'd always fail with 
missing includes. I finally got it to compile by using

env CXX='/usr/bin/clang++ -stdlib=libc++' ../configure --with-l10n-base=../l10n 
--enable-official-branding
make

Note that I have to use env because my shell is fish. Afterwards make package 
failed with the missing files errors Brennan reported.

Error: 
/Users/jmarbach/Code/icecat/icecat-60.3.0/browser/installer/package-manifest.in:593:
 Missing file(s): /IceCat.app/Contents/MacOS/browser/extensions/address@hidden/*
Error: 
/Users/jmarbach/Code/icecat/icecat-60.3.0/browser/installer/package-manifest.in:594:
 Missing file(s): /IceCat.app/Contents/MacOS/browser/extensions/address@hidden/*
...

I found the files existed but not in IceCat.app/Contents/MacOS but in 
IceCat.app/Contents/Resources. So I went into 
browser/installer/package-manifest.in and replaced @BINPATH@ with @RESPATH@ on 
lines 593 through 604. That finally made make package go through.

However, after installing the .dmg and launching Icecat it just sits there with 
an all black window. There's a bit of output on the terminal but the only 
important thing to me seems this

2019-01-18 08:15:45.325 plugin-container[25006:2228360] unable to obtain 
configuration from file:///Library/Preferences/com.apple.ViewBridge.plist due 
to Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=257 "The file 
“com.apple.ViewBridge.plist” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have 
permission to view it." 
UserInfo={NSFilePath=/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ViewBridge.plist, 
NSUnderlyingError=0x10b9ec250 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=1 
"Operation not permitted"}}

I found a reference to this in the tor browser project 
(https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/20989) and it sounds like it 
may be related to app sand boxing being configured too strict. However, I'm 
unsure on how to apply their fix to Icecat (or if this is the actual culprit).

Does anyone have any pointers on what I could do from here?

Thanks,
Johannes