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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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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