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: 0.39
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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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.

<deleted-account> commented on 2015-04-09 16:56 (UTC)

@parasitid: No, the GPG key is fine. You have to import the key into your keyring before building: $ gpg --recv-key 3C76EED7D7E04784 If you then get 'trust' errors on your next build: $ gpg --edit-key 3C76EED7D7E04784 type in 5 to ultimately trust save Questions? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GnuPG @figue: Thank you for making those changes! However, you did not update the 2nd source=() to https and it is also broken URL (not .xz, we use .bz2). Also, at the end of the 2nd source=(), ${pkgver} should be ${_pkgver} as the latter doesn't exist. Lastly, building gnu1.tar.bz is successful but segfaults on startup for no apparent reason and never successfully runs. Debugging/strace'ing doesn't show much promise so I would like to try building the other variants before reporting upstream but any attempts to make icecat-31.6.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 results in this package error: /tmp/yaourt-tmp-localhost/aur-icecat/./PKGBUILD: line 48: cd: /tmp/makepkg/icecat/src/icecat-31.6.0: No such file or directory Making the appropriate PKGBUILD changes only leads to a series of more problems because the PKGBUILD design, as a whole, is not accommodating the different source bz2 directory layouts. Can this package be made to check for OS arch and then build the appropriate source? Thank you for the work you've done and if you can figure this all out, huge kudos to you! If you need help with a patch, I'll see what I can do.

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