| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/icecat.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| 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) |
@dale6998 something in your $PATH seems not "correct". Can you check it?
@Ningen yeah, I saw it. The orphan request only is accepted if a maintainer is not active or is doing something that is against Arch rules. In this case, as you said, the only way is some TU take care of it or become TU. Unfortunately I don't know any other TU who can sponsor me.
The right way I think is go to IRC or Arch's forums and request it. Feel free to promote it if you like.
this fails to build with this message:
find: The current directory is included in the PATH environment variable, which is insecure in combination with the -execdir action of find. Please remove the current directory from your $PATH (that is, remove ".", doubled colons, or leading or trailing colons)
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
Aborting...
:: Unable to build icecat - makepkg exited with code: 4
@figue As per the email you got CC'd in, there are only two ways for the package to be put in the community repo, either a current TU adopts it (Do you know any?) or you become a TU yourself.
Would you be willing to become a TU?
@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.
@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!
@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.
@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?
@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.
@figue Same issue, it will fail compiling GKrust.
@figue 8GB ram + 4GiB swap space (swapfile), I will try -e anyway and let you know the outcome.
Pinned Comments
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:
Notes:
_build_pgo_xvfb=false. This will usexwayland-runfor profiling._build_pgo=false.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.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.