Package Details: icecat 115.10.0-1

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: 251
Popularity: 1.02
First Submitted: 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-04-19 02:20 (UTC)

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xiota commented on 2024-02-27 10:57 (UTC) (edited on 2024-02-27 10:59 (UTC) by xiota)

icecatbrowser.org is unofficial, separate from GNU, which is stated at the site itself. classictetris.net is used by the site owner to serve the prepatched sources. They are used only when _build_prepatched=true to save time by skipping the patching step. The default is false.

The site was created to fill the gap after GNU stopped distributing prepatched sources and binaries. As far as I can tell, the makeicecat script is run without any modification, while this PKGBUILD does make some changes. For version 115.8.0, the only differences between the prepatched sources and a fresh patch from this PKGBUILD are:

  • services/settings/dumps/monitor/changes – "last_modified" and "collection" entries are different. This is expected because timestamps differ based on when makeicecat is run.

  • Some different l10n files (translations). This is also somewhat expected because the latest commit is checked out prior to patching. Exact contents can differ based on when the script is run.

  • .hg* files and directories. They are not needed, and this PKGBUILD deletes them.

xiota commented on 2024-02-26 07:32 (UTC) (edited on 2024-03-13 20:04 (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.

Test builds can be expedited by:

  • Using prepatched sources by setting _build_prepatched=true
  • Using a premade profile.

Notes:

  • 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.

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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el1x commented on 2022-01-15 03:26 (UTC)

@figue 91.5.0 does not have the issue of 91.4.0 - Build OK.

figue commented on 2021-12-29 20:54 (UTC)

I'll check as soon as I can, I'm on vacation until 2022.

gnaggnoyil commented on 2021-12-29 10:55 (UTC)

I too encountered the same issue @el1x mentioned.

el1x commented on 2021-12-19 14:53 (UTC) (edited on 2021-12-19 15:07 (UTC) by el1x)

Ive had no issue's building in the past but I am receiving an error when attempting to build version 91.4.0
ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: wl_proxy_marshal_flags
clang-13: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

Similar issue referenced at the links below
https://bugs.gentoo.org/811840
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1745560

figue commented on 2021-11-13 22:12 (UTC)

@cysp74 I'm not having issues like you. But I usually use IceCat in some static sites, so maybe I'm not the best to say. Please, post some examples to try to replicate them here.

cysp74 commented on 2021-11-13 17:41 (UTC)

So,

I made an absolutely new, fresh version of icecat with rolled out packages of llvm + rust.

llvm-libs 13.0.0-3, compiler-rt 13.0.0-1, clang 13.0.0-2, lib32-llvm-libs 13.0.0-1, llvm 13.0.0-3, rust 1:1.56.1-3. + lld 13.0.0-1 (by makepkg)

Additionally, I've started icecat with new, empty .mozilla + .cache/mozilla directory. The new build stuck (freeze) on some sites (I faced occasionally strange behavior on eg. youtube also) due to webgl and/or javascript. Alas I can't specify this error more detailed, I couldn't catch any relevant log by console. - yet

cysp74 commented on 2021-11-03 21:49 (UTC)

@figue : By default isn't installed, but... PKGBUILD refers to lld package:


akedepends=(m4 unzip zip diffutils python2-setuptools python-jsonschema yasm mesa imake inetutils
             xorg-server-xvfb autoconf2.13 rust clang llvm jack gtk2
             python nodejs python2-psutil cbindgen nasm wget mercurial git lld perl-rename)

So "makepkg -sr" installs.

figue commented on 2021-11-03 18:45 (UTC)

@cysp74 do you have lld package installed?

cysp74 commented on 2021-11-03 14:04 (UTC)

@figue:

My second attempt placed in absolutely clean directory, started by "git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/icecat.git", blabla and failed.

But I pulled through after nth try after installation of llvm stuffs + rust from testing repo: clang-13.0.0-2 compiler-rt-13.0.0-1 lib32-llvm-libs-13.0.0-1 llvm-13.0.0-2 llvm-libs-13.0.0-2 rust-1:1.56.1-1

Pretty weird, (ofcoz I forgot to include the most important line into my previous comment):

0:01.85 DEBUG: Executing: /usr/bin/clang -std=gnu99 -fuse-ld=lld -Wl,--version 0:01.85 ERROR: Could not use lld as linker

So, I'll be vigilant and make new test once those packages above will be pushed into regular repo.

figue commented on 2021-11-02 22:47 (UTC)

@cysp74 can you build in a clean chroot?

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