Re: GNU IceCat for mipsel: bugs?

[Christophe Jarry]

> I haven't tried building Iceweasel myself yet, but I assume it doesn't 
> have this problem. So that means for gNewSense that we'll have to 
> continue the path suggested in [1] and apply IceCat patches to Iceweasel 
> instead of using IceCat straight.
>
> [1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?28177

I did look into IceWeasel source code at the beginning of building a package
for IceCat: the debian directory appears just too complex to me, so I decided
to work from IceCat source directly instead.

> Does Mozilla plan to work with newer versions of autotools?

I don't know.

> Requiring a version that old seems a bit silly to me. Does Mozilla have a bug
> report about this?

Yes: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297544.

Christophe