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See PKGBUILD for build options. Examples of use without editing:

• _build_pgo=false makepkg -Csr
• extra-x86_64-build -- -- _build_limit_cores=true
• _build_fast_patch=false yay icecat # usage with AUR helpers may vary

@xiota - it appears the issue is rust vs rustup. rustup is preferred, and pushed, by arch linux, but the icecat build requires rust. You might want to add it to your makedepends array, perhaps instead of cargo. Someone attempting this build without rust/cargo dev experience isn't going to pick up on the difference.

I'm guessing something else I was building in the Feb/Mar timeframe required rustup, so the Mar icecat build failed, but appeared to be correctly using "rust", or at least some version of it (which I now know was rustup).

To get it going, I had to uninstall rustup, install rust, and remove all .rust* and .cargo subdirectories, and start again.

I'm still running into this build error - have been since March. Can anybody fix this or let me know how it should be fixed:

 0:05.08 DEBUG: Executing: `rustup which cargo`
 0:05.08 DEBUG: The command returned non-zero exit status 101.
 0:05.08 DEBUG: Its error output was:
 0:05.08 DEBUG: | error: no such command: `which`
 0:05.08 DEBUG: |
 0:05.08 DEBUG: | help: a command with a similar name exists: `whichp`
 0:05.08 DEBUG: |
 0:05.08 DEBUG: | help: view all installed commands with `cargo --list`
 0:05.08 DEBUG: | help: find a package to install `which` with `cargo search cargo-which`
 0:05.08 ERROR: Command `rustup which cargo` failed with exit status 101.

Edit: I build probably 200+ packages from the AUR for my user repository and this is the only build that gives me any kind of rust/cargo problems. I have no background in rust/cargo so any advice has to be extremely explicit. My background is with C/C++ and Java. I've tried everything suggested via google, and tried to install anything close to "which" and nothing works.

Icecat with latest Rust seems to have the same issue as librewolf right now: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/librewolf#comment-1068290

Long story short, Rust 1.95 now requires a trait to be in scope for a section of code and the patch mentioned in the link fixes this.

Greetings all, I've taken the DIY instructions that the previous binary creator provided on their website, and put it all together to make new binary builds for Icecat. I intend to maintain this repo long-term or indefinitely, and will provide an announcement otherwise:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/icecat-bin

For reference, these patches should help to produce running build with clang/llvm v22 toolchain:

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=konform-browser&id=2e73e1b28fd11ae4cece6b165513ced076bd2fb5

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=konform-browser&id=be948b6ebd4faadd2845518a6b870cb7f4e33005

Tested for konform-browser which is based on the same firefox-esr version as icecat.

I think these should apply cleanly for icecat too but that has not been tested AFAIK. It is likely that significantly smaller resolving patch is viable but went for minimizing conflicts and retaining consistency with upstream changes.

@konvix - I went and deleted my ~/.cargo/bin/which and a cached version, but now I'm back to not being able to install which at all. I can't even get back the one I had. I feel like it's more messed up now than before. What changed? I've been building this software for years and suddenly I can;t...?

Edit: got the which back that I had from which_cli, but nothing I do is allowing me to install which. These are my choices:

$ cargo search --limit 50 which
which = "8.0.2"                                  # A Rust equivalent of Unix command "which". Locate installed executable in cross…
bandwhich = "0.23.1"                             # Display current network utilization by process, connection and remote IP/hostna…
cargo-which-nightly = "0.2.2"                    # Find the latest Rust nightly with combinations of features present.
cargo-whichp = "0.1.2"                           # Cli for debugging executable lookup
pnet_bandwhich_fork = "0.23.1"                   # Cross-platform, low level networking using the Rust programming language.
pnet_base_bandwhich_fork = "0.23.0"              # Fundamental base types and code used by pnet.
pnet_datalink_bandwhich_fork = "0.23.1"          # Cross-platform, datalink layer networking.
pnet_macros_bandwhich_fork = "0.23.0"            # Automatic bit manipulation for binary data formats
pnet_macros_support_bandwhich_fork = "0.23.0"    # Support library for libpnet_macros
pnet_sys_bandwhich_fork = "0.23.0"               # Access to network related system function and calls.
ratatui-which-key = "0.4.0"                      # A which-key popup widget for ratatui applications
reovim-plugin-which-key = "0.8.1"                # Which-key plugin for reovim - shows available keybindings after pressing a pref…
rust-whichsort = "0.1.0"                         # Visualize sorting algorithms in you terminal.
rwhich = "0.1.1"                                 # like linux which, can find where the exec command is
superwhich = "3.0.1"                             # Cross-platform smart which alternative
temp_deno_which = "0.1.0"                        # Temp fork with Sys impl of which crate until a new version is published
which-country-rs = "1.0.0"                       # CLI tool that detects your country by IP and renders an ASCII map
which-fs = "0.2.0"                               # Give me a path, I'll tell you the filesystem it's on
which-key = "0.1.1"                              # which key helps you remember your keymaps without leaving the terminal.
which-rs = "0.1.1"                               # Check for and locate installed executables from Rust.
which-shell = "0.1.5"                            # which-shell
which-sig = "0.1.0"                              # Print which signal caused a program to exit with the given status code.
which-steam-game = "0.2.1"                       # Command line tool to determine which multiplayer/coop steam game you and your f…
which-terminal = "0.1.0"                         # Cross-platform terminal detection library for Rust
which-usb = "0.1.0"                              # A command-line tool to list all currently connected USB devices
which_cli = "0.1.0"                              # A Rust equivalent of Unix command "which". Locate installed executable in cross…
which_problem = "0.1.2"                          # Diganose your executable lookup problems with this rust library
whichdisk = "0.3.1"                              # Cross-platform disk/volume resolver — given a path, tells you which disk it's o…
whichdoc = "0.2.1"                               # A cargo documentation diagnostics-driven editor
whichever-compiles = "1.0.0"                     # Please do not use this.
whichlang = "0.1.1"                              # A blazingly fast and lightweight language detection library for Rust.
whichlicense_classification = "2.0.0"            # A tool to classify licenses used by the WhichLicense project
whichlicense_detection = "6.0.0"                 # A tool to detect licenses used by the WhichLicense project
whichtime = "0.1.0"                              # High-level Rust API for natural language date parsing
whichtime-cli = "0.1.0"                          # Command-line interface for parsing natural language dates
whichtime-sys = "0.1.0"                          # Lower-level parsing engine for natural language date parsing
wlr-which-key = "1.3.0"                          # Keymap manager for wlroots-based compositors

and cargo install which still returns an installation error:

$ cargo install which
    Updating crates.io index
error: there is nothing to install in `which v8.0.2`, because it has no binaries
`cargo install` is only for installing programs, and can't be used with libraries.
To use a library crate, add it as a dependency to a Cargo project with `cargo add`.

Again... what changed?