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: 0.28
First Submitted: 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-30 19:41 (UTC)

Dependencies (51)

Sources (10)

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xiota commented on 2024-02-26 07:32 (UTC) (edited on 2024-08-08 03:44 (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 300. 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.

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xiota commented on 2025-03-05 21:38 (UTC)

@micwoj92 I hadn't seen that. Will try if current efforts don't work out.

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'
>>>

kreijstal commented on 2024-11-30 08:55 (UTC) 

==> Beginne prepare()...
~/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-a0b1a124e8e063a35389e1f20653047f37ca069b ~/.cache/yay/icecat/src
Preparing Firefox ESR...
Preparing translations...
Patching sources...

ERROR: This script requires Python 3 jsonschema:
 e.g.: 'jsonschema' from the Guix 'python-jsonschema' package
       'jsonschema' from the Parabola 'python-jsonschema' package
       'jsonschema' from the Trisquel 'python3-jsonschema' package
==> FEHLER: Ein Fehler geschah in prepare().

but python-jsonschema-4.23.0-1 is already installed?

xiota commented on 2024-08-09 04:52 (UTC)

@Ningen llvm 17 is needed because rust 1.77 does not support llvm 18. Will be able to switch back to extra/llvm when icecat switches to ESR 128.x.

@rev.cressy Please put full log in pastebin, or try building in clean chroot.

rev.cressy commented on 2024-08-08 23:17 (UTC) 

tail icecat-115.14.0-1-x86_64-package.log 
    self.load_settings(setting_paths_to_pass)
  File "/home/leroy/src/icecat/src/icecat-115.14.0/python/mach/mach/main.py", line 644, in load_settings
    self.settings.load_files(list(files))
  File "/home/leroy/src/icecat/src/icecat-115.14.0/python/mach/mach/config.py", line 304, in load_files
    self.load_fps(fps)
  File "/home/leroy/src/icecat/src/icecat-115.14.0/python/mach/mach/config.py", line 312, in load_fps
    self._config.readfp(fp)
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...

This is a new kind of error that I have never seen before.

Ningen commented on 2024-08-08 23:04 (UTC)

@xiota Apparently the issue is that llvm needs to be compiled with the cmake argument -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD:STRING="X86;WebAssembly" in order for it to build using the normal repo as seen here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1892724

Hopefully aur package dependency will not be needed in the future

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