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: 0.44
First Submitted: 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-04 00:48 (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 2010-05-05 15:16 (UTC)

Fine, uploaded new update with changes made by wonder, except for search engines. Build was fine for me in x86_64. Thank you wonder! Anyway, the Firefox package in extra didn't have autoconf 2.13: depends=("xulrunner=${_xulver}" 'desktop-file-utils') makedepends=('zip' 'pkgconfig' 'diffutils' 'libgnomeui>=2.24.1' 'python' 'wireless_tools') Do you know why?

wonder commented on 2010-05-05 12:06 (UTC)

autoconf-2.13 is needed internally by firefox and they _need_ that specific version because something that they use there is not compatible with the new one. the third-party search can be remove. i said that i was trying to help parabola and they had that so remove it if you don't like it.

figue commented on 2010-05-05 08:50 (UTC)

Hi wonder! Thanks for the contribution. I'm seeing right now. First question about autoconf-2.13: I implemented that patch because IceCat compile fine with last autoconf and I think we don't have to install more packages than necessaries. If some day IceCat won't build, we add autoconf 2.13 as well. Right? Second: Do you think that is necessary to add third-party search engines? I prefer to leave it default and user choice. icecat.sh was an old implementation. I want to see which implies.

wonder commented on 2010-05-04 20:43 (UTC)

here are some fixes for this build helping parabola: http://archlinux.ro/~ioni/parabola/icecat-3.6.3-1.src.tar.gz (note you may want to adapt Contributors) ChangeLog: * removed useless makedepends because those are part from base and base-devel groups. * removed autoconf-2.13.patch and added autoconf-2.13 to makedepeds * removed icecat.sh since is useless in this form as it has ICECATDIR pointing to a location that doesn't exits. it should be ICECATDIR="/usr/lib/icecat-3.6.3" but is working without it too. * changed $stardir/pkg and $startdir/src to $pkgdir and $srcdir

figue commented on 2010-04-04 13:41 (UTC)

IceCat 3.6.3 and i18n package are up.

cb474 commented on 2010-04-04 02:39 (UTC)

icecat 3.6.3 is up now. thanks for all the work on this figue.

figue commented on 2010-04-03 06:13 (UTC)

At this time there isn't new version. Please, don't flag out-of-date until new version is released: http://gnuzilla.gnu.org/download/ or http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/

figue commented on 2010-03-25 00:44 (UTC)

My pleasure fauno. Thanks to the great work of Jakub Schmidtke with firefox and xulrunner in [extra], and Muhammad and Evan that contribute to this package in the past.

fauno commented on 2010-03-25 00:27 (UTC)

hey figue! we're using your pkgbuild for our official build of gnu icecat, you can find it on http://www.parabolagnulinux.org/repo/free/ we also replace propietary/non privacy friendly search engines for others, as scroogle, logless and yacy :) thanks for your contribution!

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