Hey guys, i'm pretty new to building firefox and came across some problems I wasn't able to solve on my own.
For my master thesis, I modified the code of firefox to log some function calls, that are interesting for my work. I than build firefox as it is explained in the online documentation (./mach build) and that went smoothly. I'm also able to start this self-built firefox and browse the internet. The logging does also work. In order to be able to automate the aggregation of getting the logfiles of different websites, I used an framework called OpenWPM (can be found under https://github.com/citp/OpenWPM). This framework does use Python and Selenium to browse websites autoamtically. I modified this framework to use ne newly built firefox version. Therefore, I pointed selenium to use the firefox binary located in '/obj-x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0/dist/NightlyDebug.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox'. When I start the OpenWPM framework, the self-built firefox does start, but than crashes and I get an error window showing the following details. Process: firefox [53618] Path: /Users/USER/Documents/*/NightlyDebug.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox Identifier: org.mozilla.nightlydebug Version: 36.0a1 (3614.12.3) Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Parent Process: Python [53615] Responsible: iTerm [53499] User ID: 501 Date/Time: 2014-12-03 22:25:39.084 +0100 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.10.1 (14B25) Report Version: 11 Anonymous UUID: E75CA225-E6E7-7AE8-4372-D536D6BBFA3A Sleep/Wake UUID: 69BCE7D6-FFA5-4FE8-9215-0885B74F75B9 Time Awake Since Boot: 16000 seconds Time Since Wake: 7500 seconds Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000 Since this error also appears when building the standard firefox without the modifications in the source code, I assume that there is something wrong with the build. Using the default firefox_binary in selenium, everything works fine. At the moment, I'm using OSX Yosemite with XCode 6.1. I also tried to build firefox within Ubuntu, but that didn't work either. To be honest, I'm not absolutely sure if this is a problem with firefox or if it is ja problem of the OpenWPM framework. Maybe someone can help me here? I appreciate any help. Thanks in advance! _______________________________________________ dev-builds mailing list dev-builds@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-builds
