Package Details: icecat 115.18.0-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/icecat.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: icecat
Description: GNU version of the Firefox ESR browser
Upstream URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git
Keywords: browser esr gnuzilla web
Licenses: MPL-2.0
Submitter: None
Maintainer: figue (xiota)
Last Packager: xiota
Votes: 250
Popularity: 0.195637
First Submitted: 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-30 19:41 (UTC)

Dependencies (51)

Sources (10)

Pinned Comments

xiota commented on 2024-02-26 07:32 (UTC) (edited on 2025-05-31 19:23 (UTC) by xiota)

PKGBUILD has been updated. Major changes:

  • Downloads Firefox ESR and localization using the source array. Files are saved for reuse.
  • Saves freshly patched IceCat sources in a tarball for reuse.
  • Saves the PGO profile for reuse.

Notes:

  • Currently requires clang/llvm 17, which has to be built from AUR.
  • Wayland users, consider setting _build_pgo_xvfb=false. This will use xwayland-run for profiling.
  • PGO should work now, but if it doesn't and you're willing to go without, try _build_pgo=false.
  • Running out of RAM? Try adding mk_add_options MOZ_PARALLEL_BUILD=___ around line 350. Pick a value less than number of cores and free RAM in GB. For example, on a system with 8 cores, 64GB total RAM, but only 6 GB free, the value should be set to 4 or 5.
    • If a few people can confirm this is helpful, I will consider adding it as an additional option.
    • Main resource hog seems to be linking libxul.so. Leave a comment if you have a potential solution.

Having problems? Please provide details: processor make and model, number of cores, free -m, full log in pastebin, whether using AUR helper/makepkg/clean chroot, etc.

Latest Comments

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xiota commented on 2025-06-04 15:29 (UTC)

@impulse Thanks for the "warning", but not really necessary because this package is currently unbuildable. I'd actually advise against using any version of icecat until it is updated to ESR 128 or later.

impulse commented on 2025-06-04 15:11 (UTC) (edited on 2025-06-04 15:12 (UTC) by impulse)

SECURITY WARNING: PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS PACKAGE, until it is updated.

Use icecat-bin instead, which is up-to-date to Gnuzilla master at time of writing (4th of June 2025).

See here to keep up-to-date with official Mozilla security advisories: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/

xiota commented on 2025-05-31 19:21 (UTC) (edited on 2025-05-31 19:21 (UTC) by xiota)

I'm stuck... Last build attempt, progress ceased, but it continued eating up all available resources until I euthanized it over an hour later. I haven't tried limiting core usage yet.

Posting here in case others want to try or have any ideas. PKGBUILD-icecat-wip

micwoj92 commented on 2025-03-05 20:25 (UTC)

Also probably can be built using newer clang now.

micwoj92 commented on 2025-03-05 20:24 (UTC)

@xiota, did you try this approach? https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=seamonkey#n116

xiota commented on 2025-01-14 07:49 (UTC) (edited on 2025-02-10 04:23 (UTC) by xiota)

2025-02-10: Planning to try again during upcoming week, but expecting future 115.x versions to be unbuildable on current Arch systems because incompatible Clang and Python.

2025-01-20: Mach seems to ignore aur/python312, and clang/llvm 17 can't be built because 2to3 is missing.

2025-01-14: Will take a while to figure out how to get this to build after recent Python update.

kreijstal commented on 2025-01-13 07:27 (UTC) 

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  File "/home/kreijstal/.cache/yay/icecat/src/icecat-115.18.0/tools/esmify/mach_commands.py", line 18, in path_sep_to_native
    return pathlib.os.sep.join(path_str.split("/"))
           ^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: module 'pathlib' has no attribute 'os'
==> FEHLER: Ein Fehler geschah in build().
    Breche ab...
 -> Fehler beim Erstellen: icecat-exit status 4
 -> Die folgenden Pakete konnten nicht installiert werden. Ein manueller Eingriff ist erforderlich:
icecat - exit status 4

python 3.13:

kreijstal@kreijstalnuc:~/git$ python
Python 3.13.1 (main, Dec  4 2024, 18:05:56) [GCC 14.2.1 20240910] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pathlib
>>> pathlib.os
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<python-input-1>", line 1, in <module>
    pathlib.os
AttributeError: module 'pathlib' has no attribute 'os'
>>>

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