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: 0.72
First Submitted: 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-30 19:41 (UTC)

Dependencies (51)

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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 2021-10-16 22:49 (UTC) (edited on 2021-10-16 22:49 (UTC) by figue)

@Ningen hahaha no, I didn't thought of becoming a TU for now. But you can request to TU community to move this package to community repo. It will be great indeed.

Ningen commented on 2021-10-16 22:26 (UTC)

@figue I actually have had the thought for a long time why this package is not in community repo..., have you thought of becoming a TU for ArchLinux? I think you will be great. This is a very important package that should be available to all without the hassle of compiling yourself every time. We should really get this in the community repo, then pacman can install the precompiled binary each time instead of doing this long 2 hours compile process!

figue commented on 2021-10-16 22:05 (UTC)

@Ningen correct, compilation says this: (signal: 9, SIGKILL: kill)

I don't know if you can successfully build Firefox variants with less than 16 GB of RAM nowadays.

Maybe it's a common question and you can ask upstream.

Ningen commented on 2021-10-16 21:56 (UTC) (edited on 2021-10-16 21:59 (UTC) by Ningen)

@figue I uploaded text output here https://files.catbox.moe/wdc58y.log Sorry I have to upload the textfile since I can't copy to clipboard, don't want to recompile my vim with clipboard stuff... I truncated it to the area of the error, the rest of the log.

Additionally, yes I can see in journalctl the kernel ran out of memory so it killed a process... which was probably why compile failed.

Is there a way to make the compile process not take so much ram? How is it possible that 8GB + 4GiB ram is not enough?

figue commented on 2021-10-16 14:49 (UTC)

@Ningen paste full output somewhere and I will review, but sometimes is by low memory.

Also you can use archlinuxcn repo, which has IceCat included.

Ningen commented on 2021-10-16 00:44 (UTC)

@figue Same issue, it will fail compiling GKrust.

Ningen commented on 2021-10-15 22:43 (UTC)

@figue 8GB ram + 4GiB swap space (swapfile), I will try -e anyway and let you know the outcome.

figue commented on 2021-10-15 06:34 (UTC)

@Ningen how many RAM do you have? Try to relaunch the build with "makepkg -e" and see if the compilation success.

Ningen commented on 2021-10-14 23:52 (UTC) (edited on 2021-10-14 23:54 (UTC) by Ningen)

GKrust has a compilation error in the compiling process. Related: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/72085

pepesafestemail commented on 2021-09-04 12:20 (UTC)

@figue Thank you for quick guidance! It's still bugged, but now I can see some error messages in the terminal: When I click at the noScript addon icon: JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ExtensionContent.jsm, line 567: TypeError: PrecompiledScript.executeInGlobal: Argument 1 is not an object.

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