| 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: | 0.69 |
| First Submitted: | 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2024-11-30 19:41 (UTC) |
Having another issue since a few weeks (using paru):
... + hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/da abort: error: No route to host ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare(). Aborting... :: Packages failed to build: icecat-78.7.0-1
But hg.mozilla.org works perfectly fine, ping as well as browser.
Any idea how to fix that?
@figue thank you for your recommendation and reminder. It is on my list for a while, I have not changed yet because I have never faced any issue still. I don't know paru, I will have a look.
@romain43 Now we have to build IceCat patching Firefox source code, because GNU doesn't provide the patched code. That's because it takes long now.
And a personal recommendation: don't use yaourt anymore, it's obsolete and deprecated as far as I know. I like more trizen, yay or (the new) paru.
@JordanPlays158 it takes nearly 3 hours on my laptop. I ignore why it is so long now. Two years ago it used to take only 30 minutes on the same laptop. Sometimes compilation stops because you have no more space. I recommend to use a temporary directory for the compilation.
TMPDIR=/home/$USER/tmp yaourt -S icecat
@JordanPlayz158 yes, it is expected. Web browsers are huge software to build.
I am just wondering if this is expected behavior or possibly bad flags or something else but is the compiler suppose to take 8-11GB on a 16GB system for the compile phase, also how long is the compile time suppose to be as building the linux kernel from source seems to take less time than icecat, now I could be wrong but is icecat (a web browser) truly more complex than a whole kernel?
Compilation works as usual... If it stuck in some point, please, push logs to some online pasting service.
@waarisbert I'm compiling the last release... Wait until I test it.
Somehow, compiling Icecat is not possible at the moment. Build fails at the end, when compiling is almost done.
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.