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)

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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cysp74 commented on 2023-07-07 11:58 (UTC)

@figue, tested it works. Once I have a chance i'm gonna report on gnu side.

Bascially -r xargs switch does nothing harmful, can't break anything.

seo.disparate commented on 2023-07-07 05:00 (UTC)

Ok, I was able to build it with the changes mentioned. Note that the additional sed lines must be used outside the $_SPEED if statement block to apply to both kinds of builds (with and without _SPEED=y).

seo.disparate commented on 2023-07-07 04:22 (UTC)

Something must have changed with the languages repositories, since the build without _SPEED=y doesn't work anymore (though it used to build a few days ago). Building in a clean chroot btw. I'm currently testing the build with the following changes to be applied to builds with/without _SPEED=y:

# Thanks to cysp74 to report this bug
sed -e 's;find l10n -wholename '\''\*/brand.dtd'\'' | xargs;find l10n -wholename '\''\*/brand.dtd'\'' | xargs -r;g' -i makeicecat
sed -e 's;find l10n -wholename '\''\*/brand.ftl'\'' | xargs;find l10n -wholename '\''\*/brand.ftl'\'' | xargs -r;g' -i makeicecat

figue commented on 2023-07-07 00:52 (UTC)

Patch pushed 67ac93909fa9 but I didn't bump pkgrel. Please test it.

figue commented on 2023-07-06 23:24 (UTC)

@cysp74 I see, it's the _SPEED=Y... I'll patch.

settyness commented on 2023-07-06 19:54 (UTC) (edited on 2023-07-06 19:55 (UTC) by settyness)

I believe StartupWMClass in icecat.desktop should be icecat-default.

$ xprop WM_CLASS
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "Navigator", "icecat-default"

cysp74 commented on 2023-07-06 17:09 (UTC) (edited on 2023-07-06 17:09 (UTC) by cysp74)

@figue Ok, here is my workflow (without the ""patch""):


rm -Rf icecat
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/icecat.git
cd icecat
_SPEED=Y makepkg -srf --noconfirm

(At first try I didn't delete the directory ofcoz, but had the same yield)

This throws:


Running modification-aware sed: sed /ifndef/,/endif/d -i browser/base/content/default-bookmarks.html
+ /bin/sed /ifndef/,/endif/d -i browser/base/content/default-bookmarks.html
++ md5sum browser/base/content/default-bookmarks.html
+ '[' '3337c5c47d38487cc8936b828ff3ae58  browser/base/content/default-bookmarks.html' = '1260ccbb3f4cb12686128af1766c5616  browser/base/content/default-bookmarks.html' ']'
+ find l10n -wholename '*/brand.dtd'
+ xargs /bin/sed 's/trademarkInfo.part1.*/trademarkInfo.part1 "The IceCat logo is Copyright 2008-2015 Free Software Foundation, released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 or any later version.">/' -i
/bin/sed: no input files
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
    Aborting...
==> Removing installed dependencies...
checking dependencies...

figue commented on 2023-07-06 12:07 (UTC)

@cysp74 I've built it 2 times yesterday and makeicecat finished success both... Are you sure we need to replace that line with "xargs -r"?

cysp74 commented on 2023-07-06 11:04 (UTC)

Due to upstream bug (in makeicecat script) compile ran to error and I've made a quickfix. However I have no additional time slot for this, so @figue reporting this to gnu would be good. Or we can simply put this to an ""temporary"" patch file, include into PKGBUILD - as I did.


--- makeicecat.old      2023-07-06 11:26:16.660192912 +0200
+++ makeicecat  2023-07-06 11:43:03.986990506 +0200
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@
     sed '/ifndef/,/endif/d' -i browser/base/content/default-bookmarks.html

     # Custom legal about pages
-    find l10n -wholename '*/brand.dtd' | xargs /bin/sed 's/trademarkInfo.part1.*/trademarkInfo.part1 "The IceCat logo is Copyright 
2008-2015 Free Software Foundation, released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 or any later versio
n.">/' -i
+    find l10n -wholename '*/brand.dtd' | xargs -r /bin/sed 's/trademarkInfo.part1.*/trademarkInfo.part1 "The IceCat logo is Copyrig
ht 2008-2015 Free Software Foundation, released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 or any later ver
sion.">/' -i
     find l10n -wholename '*/brand.ftl' | xargs /bin/sed 's/^trademarkInfo = .*/trademarkInfo = The IceCat logo is Copyright 2008-20
15 Free Software Foundation, released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 or any later version./' -i
     local string
     for string in rights-intro-point-2 rights-intro-point-3 rights-intro-point-4 rights-intro-point-5 rights-intro-point-6 rights-w
ebservices rights-safebrowsing

figue commented on 2023-06-14 23:47 (UTC)

Thank you @Charlie.f94b92. I forgot to push those changes in git! :(

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