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: 0.41
First Submitted: 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-30 19:41 (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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figue commented on 2024-02-11 15:25 (UTC) (edited on 2024-02-11 15:25 (UTC) by figue)

@xiota thank you for your PKGBUILD. I've merged a few things.

@Ningen 115.7.0 pushed

Ningen commented on 2024-02-11 09:14 (UTC)

@figue Ohh I see. Would you mind pushing the PKGBUILD for 115.7.0 anyway and I will see if I can compile?

I have currently tried your PKGBUILD here https://gist.github.com/figue/4a407a15e0eedfc2e88eb5de431b69f7 but there are weird things going on outside of your mentioned issue, so I would like to just try to build the regular way if you can push the updates and investigate

figue commented on 2024-02-10 15:16 (UTC) (edited on 2024-02-10 15:16 (UTC) by figue)

@Ningen I have the PKGBUILD ready since last week but the PGO build is not working in my HP laptop, it always end in OOM kill. I was trying this week to use distcc between 3 nodes, but I was unable to build (it says something about target error), so I think I'll quit trying to maintain this package anymore.

If I can't build it properly, it doesn't have any sense to continue.

Please, contact to me by private to anyone interested for transferring this package.

Thank you for understanding.

Ningen commented on 2024-02-10 07:30 (UTC)

@figue Upstream is 115.7.0 now, does the 'flag package out of date' option on this page not notify you? Is it better if we comment for you to be notified?

xiota commented on 2023-12-30 16:31 (UTC) (edited on 2024-02-11 04:26 (UTC) by xiota)

I was also getting stuck at the same place. The problem is the browser extensions disable javascript, which is needed for the profiling. Even if javascript wasn't needed, the extensions would still need to be disabled to profile the javascript engine.

figue commented on 2023-12-30 10:58 (UTC)

@xiota Thank you for your feedback. I tried PGO build a few times some time ago, but it never works for me. Actually I tried again but it got stuck at this point:

https://gist.github.com/figue/3ef7a6db9bd0063b18914eedeffa999d

I'm not sure why right now. I'm building it with makepkg (no chroot), perhaps in a clean chroot it works, I'm not sure.

PKGBUILD used: https://gist.github.com/figue/1d7193d1dbba6e0f302b394c881e49d9

xiota commented on 2023-12-25 15:02 (UTC) (edited on 2024-01-28 07:14 (UTC) by xiota)

Some suggestions:

  • Guard path variables with quotes because they can contain spaces.

  • Use the source array to download Firefox ESR. There is already code in prepare to make use of it.

  • Enable PGO, or add a flag to do so. This browser comes with 9 extensions that reduce performance by 22%. Enabling PGO would improve performance by about 16-20%.

Let me know if you want help.

unphysicalix commented on 2023-07-27 20:59 (UTC)

Hi. It does compile beautifully, indeed.

If and only if you have the right node-js installed. STrangely enough I had nodejs-lts-fermium installed - it did not compile with it. (wrong libicui library version) AS soon as I installed nodejs-lts-gallium, replacing the former, it compiles nicely.

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