[HTTPS-Everywhere] Difficulty making debug build

[Yan Zhu]

On 06/08/2014 08:47 PM, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews wrote:
> Russell,
> 
> You're correct that there is no debug flag to build the Firefox XPI.
> Unfortunately, debugging Firefox extensions is kind of a hassle and
> generally involves building Firefox itself from source. I find that it's
> easier to add lots of console.log statements and debug that way.

FWIW, you can get verbose console.log statements from HTTPS Everywhere
by changing extensions.https_everywhere.LogLevel to 1 in about:config.
This is probably going to be too verbose, so you can set it to something
higher but less than 5.

Let me know if you have other questions!

-Yan

> 
> The Python 2.7 requirement is only for the argparse library. If you
> comment out the argparse usage in the various scripts, you should be
> able to run them with an older Python.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Russell William Golden
> <niveusluna at niveusluna.org <mailto:niveusluna at niveusluna.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm having trouble making a debug build for HTTPS Everywhere 3.5.x. I
> apologize for taking so long to try and to send this email. Here's a
> recap.
> 
> I am the maintainer for HTTPS Everywhere in Fedora and EPEL. When 3.5
> was released, I discovered that the rulesets no longer worked on EL6. It
> was suggested to me that I should make a debug build.
> 
> My problem is this:
> 
> I cannot find instructions anywhere for making a debug build of HTTPS
> Everywhere. There is only documentation of making the XPI to start with,
> and there's no ./configure or "./makexpi.sh --debug" options. Do I just
> need the debugging symbols for Firefox/SeaMonkey for this?
> 
> secondary problem, workable, wanted to note anyway:  It seems that HTTPS
> Everywhere cannot be built on EL6 as I have it configured. I need to
> find a python 2.7 build, and it isn't in EPEL. Workable, though, as I
> can get VirtualBox or VMWare Player and install Fedora into it. (I was
> quite surprised that py2.7 isn't in EPEL O.o)
> 
> Thank you.
> 
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Yan Zhu  <yan at eff.org>, <yan at torproject.org>
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