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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.

@Terrorizer if you add Chaotic repo, you will avoid to build IceCat, like the rest of prebuilt packages. There is no other advantage.

@figue ... is there an advantage for icecat to use this new "Chaotic Repo" ??? And how can i solve this: when i wanna install icecat and it runs several hours, i don't sit before my computer the whole time, in the past often i came too late and there was an output like password overtime ???

figue@pluto ~ % LC_ALL=C pacman -Si chaotic-aur/icecat | grep -E 'Date|Name|Version'
Name            : icecat
Version         : 78.3.0-1
Build Date      : Tue Sep 29 22:01:57 2020

IceCat was built in Chaotic a few days ago successfully

@mazzarino I have the same issue as you. I tried running an older version of rust per the bug report that you attached but that didn't change anything.

Have you had any luck finding a fix?

@Terrorizer patch process can take a long time, depending on your machine capacity.

Good news is that IceCat was added to Chaotic repo recently:

https://lonewolf.pedrohlc.com/chaotic-aur/

@figue, is it not possible that you make a bin-file of this

yesterday i start another try at 7:00 in the morning, and at 10:00 in the evening i must stop, because i must go to work and the compile was not complete ???

@figue It seems to be rust issue, similar https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/74551 https://bugs.gentoo.org/727178

@mazzarino I see (signal: 9, SIGKILL: kill), like if the process was killed by someone...

makepkg -e log

135:33.24    Compiling gkrust v0.1.0 (/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/toolkit/library/rust)
217:41.43 error: could not compile gkrust.
217:42.78 Caused by:
217:42.78   process didn't exit successfully: /usr/bin/rustc --crate-name gkrust toolkit/library/rust/lib.rs --error-format=json --json=diagnostic-rendered-ansi --crate-type staticlib --emit=dep-info,link -C opt-level=2 -C panic=abort -Cembed-bitcode=no -Clto --cfg 'feature="cubeb-remoting"' --cfg 'feature="cubeb_pulse_rust"' --cfg 'feature="gecko_profiler"' --cfg 'feature="gecko_profiler_parse_elf"' --cfg 'feature="moz_memory"' --cfg 'feature="moz_places"' --cfg 'feature="new_cert_storage"' --cfg 'feature="quantum_render"' --cfg 'feature="simd-accel"' --cfg 'feature="webgpu"' --cfg 'feature="webrtc"' -C metadata=c077d09e82cc710f -C extra-filename=-c077d09e82cc710f --out-dir /home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -C linker=/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/build/cargo-linker -L dependency=/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps -L dependency=/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/release/deps --extern gkrust_shared=/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libgkrust_shared-640bbcee16e45770.rlib --extern mozglue_static=/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libmozglue_static-0718399f770c57fd.rlib --extern mozilla_central_workspace_hack=/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libmozilla_central_workspace_hack-85d5f075f15cd128.rlib -C opt-level=2 -C debuginfo=2 --cap-lints warn -Cembed-bitcode=yes -C codegen-units=1 -L native=/usr/lib -L native=/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/build/lmdb-rkv-sys-873195c49dc0f637/out -L native=/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/build/mozglue-static-d23e7627d0938704/out -L native=/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/dist/bin -L native=/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/security/nss/lib/nss/nss_nss3 -L native=/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/security/nss/lib/ssl/ssl_ssl3 -L native=/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/config/external/nspr/pr -L native=/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/build/swgl-3a0f80a42ba0c709/out -L native=/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/build/libloading-34c08db01b7792e4/out -L native=/usr/lib (signal: 9, SIGKILL: kill)
217:42.78 make[4]:  [/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/config/makefiles/rust.mk:299: force-cargo-library-build] Error 101
217:42.79 make[3]:  [/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/config/recurse.mk:74: toolkit/library/rust/target] Error 2
217:42.79 make[2]:  [/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/config/recurse.mk:34: compile] Error 2
217:42.79 make[1]:  [/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/config/rules.mk:390: default] Error 2
217:42.79 make: *** [client.mk:125: build] Error 2
217:42.79 199 compiler warnings present.
218:04.36 /usr/bin/notify-send --app-name=Mozilla Build System Mozilla Build System Build failed
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

With makepkg the building failed too

116:24.03 /home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/gfx/angle/checkout/src/compiler/translator/IntermNode.h:916:37: warning: class with destructor marked 'final' cannot be inherited from [-Wfinal-dtor-non-final-class]
116:24.03     ~TIntermPreprocessorDirective() final;
116:24.03                                     ^
116:24.03 /home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/gfx/angle/checkout/src/compiler/translator/IntermNode.h:911:7: note: mark 'sh::TIntermPreprocessorDirective' as 'final' to silence this warning
116:24.03 class TIntermPreprocessorDirective : public TIntermNode
116:24.03       ^
116:24.20 1 warning generated.
116:24.34 1 warning generated.
116:24.35 make[2]: *** [/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/config/recurse.mk:34: compile] Error 2
116:24.35 make[1]: *** [/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-df6b2146f13fc90ad3c11136115ada077383ee2a/output/icecat-78.3.0/config/rules.mk:390: default] Error 2
116:24.42 make: *** [client.mk:125: build] Error 2
116:24.44 41 compiler warnings present.
116:26.29 /usr/bin/notify-send --app-name=Mozilla Build System Mozilla Build System Build failed
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...