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: 0.42
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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Twilight_Genesis commented on 2015-04-10 20:00 (UTC)

@figue No, I have never used the testing repo on this machine.

figue commented on 2015-04-10 19:43 (UTC)

@Twilight_Genesis do you have enabled testing? I built mine in "extra" chroot and it works fine.

Twilight_Genesis commented on 2015-04-09 23:02 (UTC)

@figue: It builds fine, but segfaults when run. I made sure that I didn't have firefox, xulrunner or any other mozilla software installed before I ran makepkg and built the package, but still segfaults when run.

figue commented on 2015-04-09 21:49 (UTC)

@archaurwiki The second source it's only a reference, a comment. Maybe I will remove it in next build. On the other side, the segfaults: did you have Firefox installed in the same system? I always build IceCat in a clean chroot, because I read some time ago that, with Firefox/Xulrunner installed in the same system, the compilation catch some libraries from it and then it fails. About icecat-31.6.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2: I think this is a binary build from Rubén Rodriguez. So you can't use it as a source for this package... At the end, I don't understand what you are saying about matching OS arch. This is a package for i686 and x86_64 (as arch() says). Firefox in official repos have the same architectures. No plans to modify this.

Twilight_Genesis commented on 2015-04-09 21:06 (UTC)

@archaurwiki: I had the same problem with it segfaulting at execution. I was only ever able to get it to work by building it in a clean chroot. I wasn't ever able to get it to use my CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS in /etc/makepkg.conf, it would only work when compiled in the clean chroot with makepkg.conf's default CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS. @parasitid:You have to either import the GPG key and trust it or if you don't care about the PGP signature you can pass the --skippgpcheck argument to makepkg and it won't check the signature.

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