| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/firefox-beta.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | firefox-beta |
| Description: | Standalone web browser from mozilla.org - Beta |
| Upstream URL: | https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/#beta |
| Keywords: | beta browser firefox web |
| Licenses: | |
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| Submitter: | argymeg |
| Maintainer: | TheGoliath (Anthony25) |
| Last Packager: | Anthony25 |
| Votes: | 13 |
| Popularity: | 0.000000 |
| First Submitted: | 2015-10-05 23:34 |
| Last Updated: | 2020-05-27 17:34 |
Typo in the latest update?
-> Downloading FIREFOX_60_0b15_RELEASE.desktop...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:02 --:--:-- 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
And they use Python 3 now:
0:06.41 checking for Python 3... no
0:06.41 ERROR: Python 3.5 or newer is required to build. Ensure a `python3.x` executable is in your PATH or define PYTHON3 to point to a Python 3.5 executable.
0:06.43 *** Fix above errors and then restart with\
0:06.43 "/usr/bin/make -f client.mk build"
0:06.43 make: *** [client.mk:149: configure] Error 1
Thanks for clarification and the update. Seems the first line of the updated PKGBUILD should be:
"https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-unified/archive/$meme3.tar.gz"
Instead of
"https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-unified/archive/$meme.tar.gz"
No
The patches are useful too (disables annoying features), but i'll make a small cleanup as soon as 61 reaches b1
Seems only PKGBUILD is necessary? Mind removing other files?
I've only tried on nightly with rustup, so I'm not sure about 1.24.1.
@robsmith11
works with rust-1:1.24.1-1?
It's building fine again with current Rust nightly.
FYI, this doesn't build anymore on rust 1.24.0 due to this fix landing in said version. I use rustup, so I prefixed the make commands with rustup run 1.23.0 -- ./mach ...
Thanks, it's working now.
You may want to delete some of the unused files in the git tree like mozconfig. Another possible change is to use more system libraries. I'm running it with:
ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
ac_add_options --with-system-nss
ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
ac_add_options --with-system-zlib
ac_add_options --with-system-bz2
ac_add_options --with-system-png
ac_add_options --with-system-libevent
ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx
ac_add_options --with-system-icu
ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell
ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite
ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman
Note that there is a linking bug when using new versions of nss, so the following patch is also required:
--- a/old-configure.in 2017-05-12 22:21:13.000000000 +0200
+++ b/old-configure.in 2017-06-14 00:21:17.128183411 +0200
@@ -2127,7 +2127,7 @@
fi
if test -n "$MOZ_SYSTEM_NSS"; then
- NSS_LIBS="$NSS_LIBS -lcrmf"
+ NSS_LIBS="$NSS_LIBS"
else
NSS_CFLAGS="-I${DIST}/include/nss"
fi
Pinned Comments
Anthony25 commented on 2020-05-10 01:04
I enabled LTO and PGO (using a profile generated by running the test suite). They are also used by Mozilla to compile the official firefox-beta binaries they provide, as they allow some performance boost, therefore it is synced in this package.
It is possible to keep the compilation options of the old versions of this package, by setting the options at the top the PKGBUILD (they are documented) to
enable_pgo=nandenable_lto=n, or by building it with:env enable_pgo=n enable_lto=n makepkgHowever, if running out of memory is an issue, before disabling LTO, try:
env enable_no_keep_memory=y makepkgIt should tell LD to be less aggressive on the cache utilization during the compilation. It does not change anything on the generated binary, it should slow down a bit the compilation, but at least you can still enjoy a compilation with LTO.