| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/icecat.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| 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: | 0.42 |
| First Submitted: | 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2024-11-30 19:41 (UTC) |
@figue Successfully built on my stronger pc with ~50GB swap (probably didn't need this much but previously ~30GB swap failed), not sure exactly how long it took because I had to leave it on overnight but it was still 4 hours + some. I can easily say that for any modern laptop this is still going to take over 20hrs to compile.
Think it's best to add a flag so that PGO can be optional as it won't be practical to build for most people, e.g env _PGO=true _SPEED=Y _LOCALE=en-CA makepkg -sirc
@rev.cressy The output folder is supposed to be created by makeicecat on line 109. However, _only-compile is an invalid variable name, which prevents the block from being run.
There is no directory "output" which is mentioned in PKGBUILD on line 159
@xiota I see... Regarding the memory usage though, I don't think there is any other option, compilation time and resources are growing more and more especially with firefox over the years, previously I used 8GB+4GiB swap for compiling icecat on lower versions, then slowly it needed to be raised to 8GB+8GiB swap, at this rate the whole system is going to be needed for compiling, maybe compiling on laptops is not going to be possible anymore haha
@Ningen
allocate large swap file like in my previous comment
Not appropriate to change system parameters like that inside of PKGBUILDs.
mk_add_options MOZ_PARALLEL_BUILD=4
Not needed. mach sets an appropriate value based on available cores.
ac_add_options MOZ_PGO=1
Not suitable for PKGBUILDs because doesn't work in clean chroot.
PGO makes building almost 3-5x longer
That is normal. PGO has three stages:
The PKGBUILD has been constructed to save the profile to reduce time for subsequent rebuilds by skipping to the last step.
@xiota Yes I am using that option right now compiling on my more powerful pc, however looking at the memory requirements it's most likely still going to be going over any normal laptop memory + swap space, so in that case I think it's actually better to just leave as ac_add_options --enable-lto=full actually and just allocate large swap file like in my previous comment.
I am going to be trying two different PKGBUILDS to see if I notice any improvements, because currently even on a good pc PGO makes building almost 3-5x longer. Namely, I was browsing the mozilla build docs and found that the option mk_add_options MOZ_PARALLEL_BUILD=4 could be used but isn't in the PKGBUILD, also, they don't really specify much about PGO on the docs so I am going to just try remove a large portion of the build() section replaced with the option ac_add_options MOZ_PGO=1 as they specify on the docs, not sure if it will work though
Tried to build on my laptop with ~30GB of ram and it just failed before compiling toolkit/library/build/libxul.so which were one of the last few components, very annoying. Retrying build with ~50GB ram on a more powerful computer.
@texer22 In the PKGBUILD on line 85 change if [ "${_only-compile}q" = q ]; then to if [ 1 ]; then. I would also not recommend building until someone figures out whether the PGO build really requires a lot of ram or there is an issue somewhere
Cannot build...
==> Starting build()...
/home/user/.cache/paru/clone/icecat/PKGBUILD: line 195: cd: gnuzilla-dbe6da400cf4f28e5e893d0acb5022e23cf3afcf/output/icecat-115.7.0: No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...
@figue You're right it seems to be much more resource intensive than before PGO, I can't compile natively with 8GB ram and 8GiB swap space. That said, perhaps the only option is to make a very large swap file and use that temporarily for compile time such as https://files.catbox.moe/56bafh.sh I included this as the first line under prepare() before cd gnuzilla-${_commit}, running it now and will let you know how it goes...
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:
Notes:
_build_pgo_xvfb=false. This will usexwayland-runfor profiling._build_pgo=false.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.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.