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: 0.58
First Submitted: 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-30 19:41 (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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xiota commented on 2024-08-08 09:37 (UTC)

@archmaniac Missing packages are in AUR. Packages that need to be installed from AUR are marked in the depends list above.

archmaniac commented on 2024-08-08 08:34 (UTC) (edited on 2024-08-08 08:38 (UTC) by archmaniac) 

makechrootpkg -c -n -r /mnt/chroot
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Installing missing dependencies...
error: target not found: clang17
error: target not found: lld17
error: target not found: llvm17
error: target not found: wasi-compiler-rt17
==> ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies.
==> Missing dependencies:
  -> clang17
  -> lld17
  -> llvm17
  -> wasi-compiler-rt17
  -> cbindgen
  -> dump_syms
  -> imake
  -> inetutils
  -> mercurial
  -> nasm
  -> nodejs
  -> python-setuptools
  -> rustup
  -> unzip
  -> wasi-libc
  -> wasi-libc++
  -> wasi-libc++abi
  -> yasm
  -> zip
  -> git
  -> python-jsonschema
  -> python-psutil
  -> python-setuptools
  -> wget
  -> xorg-server-xvfb
==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies.
==> ERROR: Build failed, check /mnt/chroot/dave/build

Since version 115.13 it doesn't compile anymore.

xiota commented on 2024-07-13 10:00 (UTC) (edited on 2024-07-14 10:12 (UTC) by xiota)

@rev.cressy You may have had an interrupted download. Deleting the file should also have fixed the issue. You could also try setting the _lang variable to build with only one language.

rev.cressy commented on 2024-06-12 13:54 (UTC) 

curl: (33) HTTP server doesn't seem to support byte ranges. Cannot resume.
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/sq/archive/tip.zip

removed sq from languages in PKGBUILD makepkg --sign --log -s Icecat is now building properly

rev.cressy commented on 2024-05-16 17:07 (UTC)

Thanks, Icecat needed to install rustup and remove the rust package. Built flawlessly! Great job :-)

xiota commented on 2024-04-29 17:38 (UTC)

@rev.cressy PKGBUILD has already been updated. Didn't bump pkgrel because people who built this before the Python 3.12 upgrade do not need to rebuild.

rev.cressy commented on 2024-04-29 17:07 (UTC) 

tail icecat-115.10.0-1-x86_64-build.log 
  File "/home/leroy/src/icecat/src/icecat-115.10.0/testing/mozbase/mozrunner/mozrunner/base/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from .browser import BlinkRuntimeRunner, GeckoRuntimeRunner
  File "/home/leroy/src/icecat/src/icecat-115.10.0/testing/mozbase/mozrunner/mozrunner/base/browser.py", line 11, in <module>
    from ..application import DefaultContext, IceCatContext
  File "/home/leroy/src/icecat/src/icecat-115.10.0/testing/mozbase/mozrunner/mozrunner/application.py", line 8, in <module>
    from distutils.spawn import find_executable
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
Site not up-to-date reason: "/home/leroy/src/icecat/src/icecat-115.10.0/obj/_virtualenvs/common" does not exist
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

xiota commented on 2024-04-20 10:22 (UTC)

I did notice libxul.so seemed to be a huge bottleneck, but didn't look into its resource usage. Would be good to find a way to improve it.

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