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: 0.39
First Submitted: 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-30 19:41 (UTC)

Dependencies (51)

Sources (10)

Pinned Comments

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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jaro3 commented on 2019-10-23 01:28 (UTC)

The v68.1 works pretty well, why we wouldn't put it here instead of the old v60.9? Hopefully the current ff v69 will appear soon at:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/lookaside/pkgs/icecat/

EndUserOnly commented on 2019-10-16 12:43 (UTC)

Yes! That did it. Thank you very much.

figue commented on 2019-10-15 23:25 (UTC) (edited on 2019-10-15 23:30 (UTC) by figue)

@EndUserOnly can you try if this builds fine?

Seems that rust 1.38 breaks ESR60.0 build, so I've disabled stylo to workaround, but I don't know the overall performance.

Instead, you can build a testing release based on Fedora sources, available here:

EndUserOnly commented on 2019-10-15 11:47 (UTC)

unfortunately I do not have the skills to help with that.

figue commented on 2019-10-15 11:31 (UTC)

I'm trying if this patch solves the build errors:

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr68/rev/f0020f517832

EndUserOnly commented on 2019-10-14 13:16 (UTC) (edited on 2019-10-14 13:19 (UTC) by EndUserOnly)

I am building the snapshot from this page. 60.9.0-1

figue commented on 2019-10-13 21:59 (UTC)

@EndUserOnly what version are you building: 60.9.0 or this https://mirror.lnx.im/icecat/testing/icecat-68.1.0-1.src.tar.gz ?

EndUserOnly commented on 2019-10-13 12:52 (UTC)

For a better view:

https://pastebin.com/QWN24MYm

EndUserOnly commented on 2019-10-13 12:49 (UTC)

9:39.64 BUILDSTATUS OBJECT_FILE UnifiedProtocols27.o 9:40.55 1 warning generated. 9:40.57 libcng_gn.a.desc 9:40.82 libg711_gn.a.desc 9:41.67 libg722_c_gn.a.desc 9:42.51 libg722_gn.a.desc 9:43.42 libisac_common_gn.a.desc 9:45.28 error: build failed 9:45.28 make[4]: [/home/william/Downloads/icecat/src/gnuzilla-6634ee332979f7a78b11cbf09a77364143a981ed/output/icecat-60.9.0/config/rules.mk:979: force-cargo-library-build] Error 101 9:45.28 make[3]: [/home/william/Downloads/icecat/src/gnuzilla-6634ee332979f7a78b11cbf09a77364143a981ed/output/icecat-60.9.0/config/recurse.mk:73: toolkit/library/rust/target] Error 2 9:45.28 make[3]: Waiting for unfinished jobs.... 9:48.81 libisac_c_gn.a.desc 9:49.12 libisac_fix_c_gn.a.desc 10:09.34 libipc_ipdl.a.desc 10:09.45 make[2]: [/home/william/Downloads/icecat/src/gnuzilla-6634ee332979f7a78b11cbf09a77364143a981ed/output/icecat-60.9.0/config/recurse.mk:33: compile] Error 2 10:09.45 make[1]: [/home/william/Downloads/icecat/src/gnuzilla-6634ee332979f7a78b11cbf09a77364143a981ed/output/icecat-60.9.0/config/rules.mk:442: default] Error 2 10:09.45 make: [client.mk:169: build] Error 2 10:09.45 68 compiler warnings present. 10:09.48 /usr/bin/notify-send --app-name=Mozilla Build System Mozilla Build System Build failed ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting...

Looks to me like the build failed @9:45.28. Any idea why? Failed twice, I should add. As I remember it same error both times.

figue commented on 2019-09-26 08:20 (UTC)

well, it has another things disabled, options, etc. See this: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git/tree/makeicecat

These days, Abrowser, Torbrowser and IceCat are similar, but you can use each for different purposes.

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