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: 0.40
First Submitted: 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-04 00:48 (UTC)

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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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misaka00251 commented on 2019-05-12 06:51 (UTC) (edited on 2019-05-13 06:13 (UTC) by misaka00251)

Update: this method won't work.

About Icecat can't install *.xpi themes, maybe I found a tricky solution. When manually install a theme, icecat will throw an error:

addons.xpi      WARN    Invalid XPI: Error: Cannot find id for addon /home/example/minecraft_grassy_block-1.0-an+fx.xpi (resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIInstall.jsm:1544:17) JS Stack trace: loadManifest@XPIInstall.jsm:1544:17

And I checked XPIInstall.jsm, here's the code:

//...
    if (!this.addon.id) {
      let err = new Error(`Cannot find id for addon ${file.path}`);
      return Promise.reject([AddonManager.ERROR_CORRUPT_FILE, err]);
    }
//...

So, comment out this block when patching will solve the issue?

figue commented on 2019-05-11 19:46 (UTC)

@misaka00251 yeah, I saw that. Let's wait until Ruben has all the work done. I saw he remove all Debian stuff (better for me as probably I won't have to do myself :)

misaka00251 commented on 2019-05-11 07:42 (UTC)

Upstream updated to 60.6.3: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git

figue commented on 2019-05-06 20:43 (UTC)

glad to hear... You're welcome. In fact Guix build process seems a bit tricky the first time you read... Hope nothing will change soon and we can keep IceCat updated.

gearshift commented on 2019-05-06 20:28 (UTC)

@figue The changes worked. Also big thanks for taking the time to change over to the Guix build process. Now we can finally have updated versions!

figue commented on 2019-05-06 11:35 (UTC)

thanks and sorry... Working on next version and I'll include mercurial and perl-rename as makedependency.

misaka00251 commented on 2019-05-06 07:10 (UTC)

Same as @gearshift:

xargs: perl-rename: No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().

Also, Firefox ESR 60.6.2 is out now :D

gearshift commented on 2019-05-06 00:31 (UTC) (edited on 2019-05-06 08:35 (UTC) by gearshift)

You need to add mercurial as a dependency.

makeicecat: line 89: hg: command not found

I'm getting this error:

xargs: perl-rename: No such file or directory

==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().

figue commented on 2019-05-05 21:59 (UTC)

I've decided to radically modify the build process and use the makeicecat to build an unreleased version of IceCat, following the Guix philosophy.

This makes a bit longer the build process, because makeicecat download the tarball and patches a lot of things. In fact, it does some things for Debian which I have to disable (patching makeinstall script).

Please, report if something is broken or if I miss something. I've tested today IceCat and it seems good to me.

jghodd commented on 2019-04-18 23:02 (UTC)

@figue i don't know how reliable chroot is anymore either. i have a system running the 32-bit version of my distro which i use for pkgbuilds. i'll look around a little in case this same error is coming up elsewhere, but if i had to guess, it's probably because arch32 lags behind and something is not up to date. to work around this issue permanently, i may have to switch my 32-bit users over to icecat-bin instead. thanks for the help.

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