297775 - Build instructions should reflect ability to build with gcc 4

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Product Site, enhancement)

Description

[Mark Mentovai]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050615 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050615 Firefox/1.0+

Sorry, Sam.  I didn't expect that this would change so soon.

The first FAQ should look like this:

Q. Can I build on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger using GCC 4?
A. Yes, with a few caveats.  Builds produced with GCC 4 will only run on Mac OS
X 10.3.9 and above.  Because of this, official Camino releases for current Apple
hardware will continue to be built with GCC 3.3, providing compatibility with
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar.  To use GCC 3.3 on Tiger, simply enter sudo gcc_select 3.3
in a terminal.

The version of GCC 4 that initially shipped with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is a
pre-release version and will not build Camino.  Users with Xcode 2.0 are
encouraged to upgrade to Xcode 2.1, which includes a working version of GCC 4,
or to switch to GCC 3.3 with sudo gcc_select 3.3.

If you've read this and are still positive that you want to use GCC 4, you must
add the following line to the end of your .mozconfig file:
ac_add_options --with-macos-sdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.3.9.sdk

GCC 4 users will also need to create a link to the Shared Menus framework the
10.3.9 SDK if one does not already exist.
$ sudo mkdir -p /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.3.9.sdk/Library/Frameworks
$ sudo ln -s /Library/Frameworks/SharedMenusCocoa.framework
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.3.9.sdk/Library/Frameworks

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Mark Mentovai]

> GCC 4 users will also need to create a link to the Shared Menus framework the
> 10.3.9 SDK if one does not already exist.

I left out a word after "framework" - guess which one?

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

CCing Wevah, Jasper. This will require moving the old GCC 4 information.

As noted in the bug, we're waiting for bug 297688 to land. If I don't do this
when the bug lands, can one of you two take care of it?

Comment 3

[Mark Mentovai]

Also need to get rid of these sentences in the Preparing to Build section:

"Building on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger requires the use of GCC 3.3 and not the
included GCC 4. See the FAQ at the bottom of this page for more information."

Comment 4

[Wevah (Nate Weaver)]

Fixed.

Comment 5

[Wevah (Nate Weaver)]

Fixed.