| 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: | 251 |
| Popularity: | 0.72 |
| First Submitted: | 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2024-11-30 19:41 (UTC) |
@xiota Thank you for your feedback. I tried PGO build a few times some time ago, but it never works for me. Actually I tried again but it got stuck at this point:
https://gist.github.com/figue/3ef7a6db9bd0063b18914eedeffa999d
I'm not sure why right now. I'm building it with makepkg (no chroot), perhaps in a clean chroot it works, I'm not sure.
PKGBUILD used: https://gist.github.com/figue/1d7193d1dbba6e0f302b394c881e49d9
Some suggestions:
Guard path variables with quotes because they can contain spaces.
Use the source array to download Firefox ESR. There is already code in prepare to make use of it.
Enable PGO, or add a flag to do so. This browser comes with 9 extensions that reduce performance by 22%. Enabling PGO would improve performance by about 16-20%.
Let me know if you want help.
Hi. It does compile beautifully, indeed.
If and only if you have the right node-js installed. STrangely enough I had nodejs-lts-fermium installed - it did not compile with it. (wrong libicui library version) AS soon as I installed nodejs-lts-gallium, replacing the former, it compiles nicely.
icecat-102.13.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst built beautifully :-) Thanks
I've relocated patch outside. Hope this fixes build: 19c0c6c810d1
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
Aborting...
Cant solve the problem...
Running modification-aware sed: sed s/_PP// -i browser/branding/branding-common.mozbuild
Running modification-aware sed: sed /ifndef/,/endif/d -i browser/base/content/default-bookmarks.html /bin/sed: no input files ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare(). Aborting...
I received this error this morning while attempting to compile icecat.
@figue, tested it works. Once I have a chance i'm gonna report on gnu side.
Bascially -r xargs switch does nothing harmful, can't break anything.
Ok, I was able to build it with the changes mentioned. Note that the additional sed lines must be used outside the $_SPEED if statement block to apply to both kinds of builds (with and without _SPEED=y).
Something must have changed with the languages repositories, since the build without _SPEED=y doesn't work anymore (though it used to build a few days ago). Building in a clean chroot btw. I'm currently testing the build with the following changes to be applied to builds with/without _SPEED=y:
# Thanks to cysp74 to report this bug
sed -e 's;find l10n -wholename '\''\*/brand.dtd'\'' | xargs;find l10n -wholename '\''\*/brand.dtd'\'' | xargs -r;g' -i makeicecat
sed -e 's;find l10n -wholename '\''\*/brand.ftl'\'' | xargs;find l10n -wholename '\''\*/brand.ftl'\'' | xargs -r;g' -i makeicecat
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.