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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.

Patch pushed 67ac93909fa9 but I didn't bump pkgrel. Please test it.

@cysp74 I see, it's the _SPEED=Y... I'll patch.

I believe StartupWMClass in icecat.desktop should be icecat-default.

$ xprop WM_CLASS
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "Navigator", "icecat-default"

@figue Ok, here is my workflow (without the ""patch""):

rm -Rf icecat
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/icecat.git
cd icecat
_SPEED=Y makepkg -srf --noconfirm

(At first try I didn't delete the directory ofcoz, but had the same yield)

This throws:

Running modification-aware sed: sed /ifndef/,/endif/d -i browser/base/content/default-bookmarks.html
+ /bin/sed /ifndef/,/endif/d -i browser/base/content/default-bookmarks.html
++ md5sum browser/base/content/default-bookmarks.html
+ '[' '3337c5c47d38487cc8936b828ff3ae58  browser/base/content/default-bookmarks.html' = '1260ccbb3f4cb12686128af1766c5616  browser/base/content/default-bookmarks.html' ']'
+ find l10n -wholename '*/brand.dtd'
+ xargs /bin/sed 's/trademarkInfo.part1.*/trademarkInfo.part1 "The IceCat logo is Copyright 2008-2015 Free Software Foundation, released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 or any later version.">/' -i
/bin/sed: no input files
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
    Aborting...
==> Removing installed dependencies...
checking dependencies...

@cysp74 I've built it 2 times yesterday and makeicecat finished success both... Are you sure we need to replace that line with "xargs -r"?

Due to upstream bug (in makeicecat script) compile ran to error and I've made a quickfix. However I have no additional time slot for this, so @figue reporting this to gnu would be good. Or we can simply put this to an ""temporary"" patch file, include into PKGBUILD - as I did.

--- makeicecat.old      2023-07-06 11:26:16.660192912 +0200
+++ makeicecat  2023-07-06 11:43:03.986990506 +0200
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@
     sed '/ifndef/,/endif/d' -i browser/base/content/default-bookmarks.html

     # Custom legal about pages
-    find l10n -wholename '*/brand.dtd' | xargs /bin/sed 's/trademarkInfo.part1.*/trademarkInfo.part1 "The IceCat logo is Copyright 
2008-2015 Free Software Foundation, released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 or any later versio
n.">/' -i
+    find l10n -wholename '*/brand.dtd' | xargs -r /bin/sed 's/trademarkInfo.part1.*/trademarkInfo.part1 "The IceCat logo is Copyrig
ht 2008-2015 Free Software Foundation, released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 or any later ver
sion.">/' -i
     find l10n -wholename '*/brand.ftl' | xargs /bin/sed 's/^trademarkInfo = .*/trademarkInfo = The IceCat logo is Copyright 2008-20
15 Free Software Foundation, released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 or any later version./' -i
     local string
     for string in rights-intro-point-2 rights-intro-point-3 rights-intro-point-4 rights-intro-point-5 rights-intro-point-6 rights-w
ebservices rights-safebrowsing

Thank you @Charlie.f94b92. I forgot to push those changes in git! :(

Broken build on 102.12.0-2. Fixed it:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 9934a89..565e9cc 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ sha256sums=('0f629c78f24dc56b7369b337aa8d72d948c1d00a2c1f6761468c9511ca8320be'
             '33dd309eeb99ec730c97ba844bf6ce6c7840f7d27da19c82389cdefee8c20208'
             'ca3cedc5edce26040d3caf735afa8744fe08f3a1695eb2cda3796f4f336632d3'
             '2a12b187a8803b0c3a4385d4567e1debf8bfa3e17c4c8cefdf39fb7434d3d932'
-            'db2fb4df9738c83c59ff037093d5474bc0fb64ac4ea0f71945ac741d4173211a')
+            '53a45dd7ffd004d04c89492fd6c9aa1759f44f212730479d98e72ce20a74e254')

 prepare() {
   cd gnuzilla-${_commit}
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ prepare() {

   # fix mp4parse (thank you @seo.disparate :: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/icecat#comment-918458)
   patch -Np1 -i ../../../mp4parse_macro_mul.patch
-  sed -e 's|src/lib.rs":"73114a5c28472e77082ad259113ffafb418ed602c1741f26da3e10278b0bf93e|src/lib.rs":"bded10689ddd8fd3fcb4ab01be1ecf3642691d68c3651fc4b00f3ccba67fc7cd|' -i output/icecat-${pkgver}/third_party/rust/mp4parse/.cargo-checksum.json
+  sed -e 's|src/lib.rs":"73114a5c28472e77082ad259113ffafb418ed602c1741f26da3e10278b0bf93e|src/lib.rs":"bded10689ddd8fd3fcb4ab01be1ecf3642691d68c3651fc4b00f3ccba67fc7cd|' -i third_party/rust/mp4parse/.cargo-checksum.json

   # Patch to move files directly to /usr/lib/icecat. No more symlinks.
   sed -e 's;$(libdir)/$(MOZ_APP_NAME)-$(MOZ_APP_VERSION);$(libdir)/$(MOZ_APP_NAME);g' -i config/baseconfig.mk
diff --git a/mp4parse_macro_mul.patch b/mp4parse_macro_mul.patch
index 10619f1..a14dbf2 100644
--- a/mp4parse_macro_mul.patch
+++ b/mp4parse_macro_mul.patch
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
---- a/output/icecat-102.12.0/third_party/rust/mp4parse/src/lib.rs
-+++ b/output/icecat-102.12.0/third_party/rust/mp4parse/src/lib.rs
+--- a/third_party/rust/mp4parse/src/lib.rs
++++ b/third_party/rust/mp4parse/src/lib.rs
 @@ -3184,8 +3184,8 @@
              type Output = $output;

@seo.disparate thank you. I'll check it!

@unphysicalix as you say, the history is simply that IceCat comes from GNU, Librewolf is an independent project.

Use the browser you like. I currently run several of them according to what I need.

Cheers

since there is no simple "heads up" or "thumbs up" to your reply, @seo.disparate, another comment: Your patch works well for me. Could compile it, works, writing this wir 102.12.0.

General remark: since upstream does not seem to be a big community: where is the difference to LibreWolf. Can't the two projects be merged? Or can icecat at least a lot easier and more modern be derived from LibreWolf instead from firefox?

I know, almost always posing these questions shows that the one asking it does not understand the history or the motivation/goal, the problems or the work involved. Nevertheless, from the user perspective I am happy with icecat, but I could be happier with librewolf in some occations... I'll try it at least.

Anyway: Cheers to you, @figue and @seo.disparate !