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: 0.54
First Submitted: 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-30 19:41 (UTC)

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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 2021-02-06 21:38 (UTC)

@dominikl odd... As a workaround, you can build with _SPEED=y variable and edit PKGBUILD to put your desired locale there. But if you wait a couple of hours, I'll push a new release with this "speed build" easier to use.

dominikl commented on 2021-02-06 19:26 (UTC)

It's always different hg.mozilla.org urls, tried again now it's "hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/is" which failed. Wonder if there's some ddos protection in place? Pretty annoying. Is it possible to set some wait_and_retry flag instead failing?

figue commented on 2021-02-06 19:07 (UTC)

@dominikl no idea... If you execute hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/da in a normal shell it works?

dominikl commented on 2021-02-06 19:00 (UTC) (edited on 2021-02-06 19:01 (UTC) by dominikl)

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?

romain43 commented on 2021-01-29 09:11 (UTC)

@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.

figue commented on 2021-01-29 08:43 (UTC)

@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.

romain43 commented on 2021-01-29 08:33 (UTC)

@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

figue commented on 2021-01-29 08:29 (UTC)

@JordanPlayz158 yes, it is expected. Web browsers are huge software to build.

JordanPlayz158 commented on 2021-01-29 04:31 (UTC)

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?

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