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As has been previously mentioned on this list and at the status
meetings, we've now switched the Mac trunk builds (3.3a1pre) from
ppc/32 bit universal binaries to 32/64 bit universal binaries.<br>
<br>
This happened late yesterday, and the first nightly hasn't yet been
produced. Whilst I know the Mac builds work, I am expecting issues
with the update system - we know Firefox had issues, and whilst we
think that we've got everything in place, it is quite possible we've
missed something. I expect that if there is an issue it will be more
that an update is not served, rather than being served a broken
update.<br>
<br>
Users running 10.5 will automatically use the 32 bit version - 64
bit is not available for 10.5 users. 10.6 users will automatically
use the 64 bit version; whilst 10.6 users can switch to 32 bit I
believe Firefox has taken the decision that that mode of running is
effectively unsupported (i.e. it isn't going to be tested) even
though it is allowed.<br>
<br>
There are a couple of known issues with the new builds:<br>
<ul>
<li>Import and Migration from Eudora profiles has currently been
disabled on the 64 bit part of the build as we're still working
on the final compilation issue (<a
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537872">bug
537872</a>).</li>
<li>Attempting to use GSSAPI on the 64 bit version is likely to
crash Shredder (<a
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604653">bug
604653</a>).<br>
</li>
</ul>
From the tinderbox/builder point of view, there is also a bit of
work still to be done:<br>
<ul>
<li>We currently only have two 64 bit builders on trunk (one is
fast, the other is slower), we will be getting more soon. This
impacts on what builders we have as mentioned below.</li>
<li>No 64 bit debug/leak test builds until we get more builders (the
32 bit debug/leak test builds are running though).</li>
<li>We will be setting up xpcshell-tests and MozMill tests to run
on the 32 bit part of the build, these are currently waiting on
a MozMill upgrade to pick up a fix to allow this to work
properly.</li>
</ul>
Try server should already build Mac 64 bit for comm-central builds
as long as you push based on the latest comm-central revisions.<br>
<br>
Mark.<br>
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