| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/icecat.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | icecat |
| Description: | GNU version of the Firefox ESR browser |
| Upstream URL: | https://gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnuzilla.git |
| Keywords: | browser esr gnuzilla web |
| Licenses: | MPL-2.0 |
| Submitter: | None |
| Maintainer: | figue (xiota) |
| Last Packager: | xiota |
| Votes: | 253 |
| Popularity: | 1.41 |
| First Submitted: | 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2025-10-15 22:28 (UTC) |
pacman indicates package is from a binary repo. The one I know about has rebuilt the package.
To force library updates without uninstalling anything, sudo pacman -Syudd, but packages that are holding updates will break.
Anyone having problems with video playback, install extra/ffmpeg4.4.
@jghodd Uninstall Icecat, update the system, and then clean build the package on top of the new library.
Looks like we need an update...
pacman -S icecat
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "libvpx.so=9-64", a dependency of "icecat"
Added workaround for cargo lock at line 350-362. Did not bump pkgrel because anyone who figured out their own workaround doesn't need to rebuild.
@dd86
I had the same error. Looking further up the logs I saw:
0:17.59 error: the lock file /build/icecat/src/gnuzilla-c939d76c33294791cce8ce1722bd6747dadbe31f/output/icecat-140.3.0/Cargo.lock needs to be updated but --locked was passed to prevent this
0:17.59 If you want to try to generate the lock file without accessing the network, remove the --locked flag and use --offline instead.
0:17.62 make[3]: *** [backend.mk:1237: config/.deps/cbindgen-metadata.json.stub] Error 101
I managed to build by first attempting to build and stopping during the "Runing batch rebranding (this will take a while)" step, going into the src/, and making a patch replacing/removing every instance of "--locked"/"--frozen" wherever "cargo" is used. Then I changed the PKGBUILD to apply the patch before the "Building browser..." step in the PKGBUILD.
@xiota were you able to build the new version? I keep getting this error:
0:23.35 config/makefiles/xpidl/xul.xpt
0:23.61 config/makefiles/xpidl/xulapp.xpt
0:23.82 config/makefiles/xpidl/zipwriter.xpt
0:24.47 config/makefiles/xpidl/xptdata.stub
0:26.19 make[2]: *** [/home/justice/Downloads/icecat/src/icecat-140.3.0/config/recurse.mk:34: export] Error 2
0:26.19 make[1]: *** [/home/justice/Downloads/icecat/src/icecat-140.3.0/config/rules.mk:359: default] Error 2
0:26.19 make: *** [client.mk:60: build] Error 2
0:26.29 W 0 compiler warnings present.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...I can see it tagged here: https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git/tag/?h=v140.3.0-gnu1
Pinned Comments
xiota commented on 2024-02-26 07:32 (UTC) (edited on 2025-07-20 23:15 (UTC) by xiota)
Description of build options and defaults. See PKGBUILD for current list.
_build_save_source(true) – save tarball of patched sources_build_repatch(false) – discard previously saved tarball_build_pgo(true) – enable profile guided optimization; ~20% better benchmarks, 3× build time_build_pgo_reuse(try) – reuse previously generated profile_build_pgo_xvfb(true) – use Xvfb for profiling, otherwise, use xwayland-run_build_lto(false) – use link-time optimization (LTO); disabling may prevent spurious crashes_build_system_libs(true) – use system libraries_build_limit_cores(false) – limit parallelization based on memory and core availabilityExamples of use:
_build_pgo=false makepkg -Csrextra-x86_64-build -- -- _build_limit_cores=true_build_pgo_xvfb=false yay icecat# usage with AUR helpers may vary