Package Details: icecat 115.17.0-1

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: 0.37
First Submitted: 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-04 00:48 (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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figue commented on 2021-07-04 19:46 (UTC)

@Grand-Jury9th it's interesting... Did you installed first ffmpeg-full then IceCat or did you build first IceCat, then ffmpeg-full and then it was fixed automatically? What differences are between ffmpeg and ffmpeg-full?

<deleted-account> commented on 2021-07-04 11:13 (UTC)

Hi there, i have had the video crash issue. The way i fixed it was by installing "ffmpeg-full" from the aur, i found this workaround thanks to a forum discussion on fedora's website.

Over there they installed "Rpm fusion's free packages" which fixed it for them[1]. Now i think for arch a couple dependency packages for "ffmpeg-full" shall fix icecat out of the box. Or one can just install "ffmpeg-full" but it does take up alot of space and takes a fair amount of time to compile everything.

1: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/gnu-icecat-will-not-play-videos/11588

figue commented on 2021-05-13 13:22 (UTC) (edited on 2021-05-13 13:22 (UTC) by figue)

@mjachkie in fact, you can. Try to set these variables (replacing es-ES with your desired locale):

env _LOCALE=es-ES _SPEED=y makepkg -rsic

Reference: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=icecat#n53

Tpaefawzen commented on 2021-05-13 12:22 (UTC)

Wish I could have chosen what languages not to install; the downloading would be done in less minutes.

Ningen commented on 2021-04-29 02:11 (UTC)

@figue Works well thank you!

figue commented on 2021-04-23 17:50 (UTC)

@cysp74 I don't know, but package is OK hahaha ;)

cysp74 commented on 2021-04-23 10:40 (UTC)

@figue: Looks like the permission issue is came from pkg directory as outcome of PKGBUILD placed on FS with ACL. Strange thing is, there are other packages (eg. wine-staging-git) build regularly on same fs without any hassle. I checked the differences between PKGBUILD files, but didn't come up anything. However permissions on pkg directory of eg. wine-staging-git doesn't inherited into compressed package only in icecat.

figue commented on 2021-04-21 18:21 (UTC)

@cysp74 All permissions are OK on my system...

figue on pluto ~ ➜  ls -la /usr/lib/icecat/      
total 156856
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root      4096 abr 21 20:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 347 root root    262144 abr 21 12:04 ..
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root      4096 abr 21 20:16 browser
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root      4096 nov 10  2018 defaults
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      4096 abr 21 20:16 distribution
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      4096 abr 21 20:16 fonts
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root      4096 nov 10  2018 gmp-clearkey
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      4096 abr 21 20:16 gtk2
-rw-r--r--   1 root root       509 abr 21 17:09 application.ini
-rw-r--r--   1 root root        89 abr 21 17:09 dependentlibs.list
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root    707080 abr 21 17:09 icecat
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root    707080 abr 21 17:09 icecat-bin
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root     40824 abr 21 17:09 liblgpllibs.so
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   2128952 abr 21 17:09 libmozavcodec.so
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root    236728 abr 21 17:09 libmozavutil.so
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root      5976 abr 21 17:09 libmozgtk.so
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root    133720 abr 21 17:09 libmozsandbox.so
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   1237864 abr 21 17:09 libmozsqlite3.so
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root     10072 abr 21 17:09 libmozwayland.so
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 132223392 abr 21 17:09 libxul.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  21348499 abr 21 17:09 omni.ja
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root    804776 abr 21 17:09 pingsender
-rw-r--r--   1 root root       102 abr 21 17:09 platform.ini
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root    700728 abr 21 17:09 plugin-container
-rw-r--r--   1 root root         0 abr 21 17:09 removed-files

cysp74 commented on 2021-04-21 17:14 (UTC)

@figue: Compilation passed w/ new patch on my end. - just a sidenote... :) Permission issue still exists.

figue commented on 2021-04-21 14:48 (UTC)

@Ningen see 9f7712c17cd7

I could write a patch to use perl-rename from [extra]... Will try to push it upstream (I'm not sure if it will be accepted).

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