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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romero commented on 2018-09-06 16:42 (UTC) (edited on 2018-09-06 16:48 (UTC) by romero)

@figue - thanks that worked like a charm! I'm new to Linux, a repenting former Mac addict, who just went cold turkey on all my machines with Manjaro, since I'm convinced about everything Arch. However, I just need to learn its inner working, before I go for the pure thing.

Manjaro uses pamac, as I found out. This little 'king' :) populates /tmp with all kind of crap, but generally works - only some programs make trouble, like IceCat in the XFCE version of Manjaro, to whatever reason.

Again, thank you very much.

figue commented on 2018-09-05 23:16 (UTC) (edited on 2018-09-05 23:18 (UTC) by figue)

@romero why you build IceCat in /tmp? If you are using some king of AUR helper (yaourt, pacaur, trizen...) stop and build manually in your /home or in some partition you have enough free space:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/icecat.git
cd icecat
makepkg -sic

Done :)

romero commented on 2018-09-05 17:49 (UTC) (edited on 2018-09-05 21:07 (UTC) by romero)

While trying to install, I get caught in a loop: After 30 min or so, I get an error saying that the device is full. This seem to be because /tmp is full. After deleting all content from it, I can give it another try, but with the same effect.

This happens on my X220 running Manjaro with XFCE. Running Manjaro with GNOME, though, does the job. Any idea why that might be the case?

figue commented on 2018-08-22 22:23 (UTC)

@soundtoxin ok, so it works now...

I have a workaround with wget if sometimes it happens something with gpg:

wget -O - "http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x3C76EED7D7E04784" | gpg --import -

soundtoxin commented on 2018-08-22 18:46 (UTC) (edited on 2018-08-22 18:51 (UTC) by soundtoxin)

I'm unable to import the key necessary for installing icecat. icecat-52.6.0-gnu1.tar.bz2 ... FAILED (unknown public key 3C76EED7D7E04784)

gpg --recv-keys 3C76EED7D7E04784 gpg: keyserver receive failed: No data

edit: something on my end. manually updated all my keys and got it to work

figue commented on 2018-02-26 21:18 (UTC) (edited on 2018-02-26 21:18 (UTC) by figue)

@colinkeenan download sources manually, your closest mirror isn't updated yet. In my case my mirror is:

http://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/GNU/gnuzilla/52.6.0/icecat-52.6.0-gnu1.tar.bz2

colinkeenan commented on 2018-02-26 19:35 (UTC)

==> Making package: icecat 52.6.0-1 (Mon Feb 26 13:34:04 CST 2018) ==> Retrieving sources... -> Downloading icecat-52.6.0-gnu1.tar.bz2... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found ==> ERROR: Failure while downloading http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnuzilla/52.6.0/icecat-52.6.0-gnu1.tar.bz2 Aborting... ==> ERROR: Could not download sources.

colinkeenan commented on 2018-02-10 05:26 (UTC) (edited on 2018-02-10 06:09 (UTC) by colinkeenan)

Update: after compiling again, it works (because now it's looking for libvpx.so.5 which exists instead of ...4). Since it doesn't look like you'll be doing a release for this, I set pkgrel=3.1 because I'm uploading to archlinuxcn repo and want to trigger upgrade for others.

With today's updates, I'm also getting "XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/icecat/libxul.so: libvpx.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM."

I have not tried compiling it again yet. I will update after that.

figue commented on 2018-02-06 21:46 (UTC)

@EndUserOnly you marked IceCat as out-of-date:

Could not load XPCOM. Arch must have done away with it.

You mean IceCat fails to start on your machine? It works for me... Did you try to recompile?

figue commented on 2017-10-16 09:49 (UTC)

@oldgaro you mean during make?

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