847807 - Unable to open metro build on Mac

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Metro Graveyard :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Raymond Lee [:raymondlee]]

Attachment: my mozconfig

I can build metro on mac fine but when I try to launch it using 

./obj-ff-dbg/dist/Nightly.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -metrodesktop

It throws an error on command line "Couldn't read application.ini"

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

not blocking v1. Why would we want or even expect this to work?

Comment 2

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

>  Why would we want or even expect this to work?

Mainly just so people on other OS can contribute patches to metro front end. I suspect the people wanting to contribute to the Metro browser on those platforms though is low and I agree with the no v1.

Comment 3

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

I think Rodrigo was the last person to get this working -- do you remember the steps required?

Comment 4

[Rodrigo Silveira [:rsilveira] [:rodms]]

I saw that error at some point, I'm not sure what I did for it to disappear. Some of the things I did that might be related:
- I had nightly installed
- run the built firefox without -metrodesktop
- make the metro and browser

Again, those are just wild guesses :(. I haven't built on the mac in a while, I'll try again and see if it still works.

Comment 5

[Rodrigo Silveira [:rsilveira] [:rodms]]

After a full clobber/build I was getting the same "Couldn't read application.ini" error. It started working again after I did a make -C browser/ from the obj folder.

My .mozconfig contains only:
ac_add_options --enable-metro

Hope it helps.

Comment 6

[Raymond Lee [:raymondlee]]

(In reply to Rodrigo Silveira [:rsilveira] from comment #5)
> After a full clobber/build I was getting the same "Couldn't read
> application.ini" error. It started working again after I did a make -C
> browser/ from the obj folder.
> 
> My .mozconfig contains only:
> ac_add_options --enable-metro
> 
> Hope it helps.

Nice, it works ;-)

Comment 7

[Rodrigo Silveira [:rsilveira] [:rodms]]

Glad it worked!

Comment 8

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Reopening this bug in case anyone wants to fix the build so this isn't necessary.

Comment 9

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Mass close of bugs in obsolete product https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1350354