Compiling Pale Moon web browser on Fedora 27
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I like the traditional model of Firefox. This is easily represented in the current project Pale Moon. The upstream project does not currently provide instructions for compiling on Fedora 27. All the options they have documented are on their developer site: https://developer.palemoon.org/Developer_Guide:Build_Instructions/Pale_Moon/Linux. You might think it is no big deal to download and compile an application. But when the application is still targeted for gcc4.9, it's a little tricky to compile on the current Fedora which uses gcc7. After consulting the Internet, I have assembled my instructions for compiling Palemoon on Fedora.
Compile palemoon on Fedora 27
# Install the whole set of packages listed on (primary ref 1) for CentOS7
sudo dnf -y install gtk2-devel dbus-glib-devel autoconf213 yasm mesa-libGL-devel alsa-lib-devel libXt-devel zlib-devel openssl-devel sqlite-devel bzip2-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel
sudo dnf -y groupinstall 'Development Tools'
# Install additional dependencies I found
sudo dnf -y install nspr-devel
# Use autoconf 2.13
autoconfver="$( autoconf --version 2>/dev/null | awk 'NR==1 {print $NF*100;} END {print "0";}' | head -n1 )"
test ${autoconfver} -ne 213 && test ${autoconfver} -gt 0 && sudo mv /usr/bin/autoconf /usr/bin/autoconf-${autoconver} 2>/dev/null ; sudo ln -sf autoconf-2.13 /usr/bin/autoconf
# Use the copr davidva/gcc49
sudo dnf -y copr enable davidva/gcc49
# fix the $releasever variable in the repo
sudo sed -i -r -e 's/-\$releasever-/-23-/;' /etc/yum.repos.d/_copr_davidva-gcc49.repo
sudo dnf -y install gcc49
# fix a minor library problem (primary ref 2)
pushd /opt/gcc-4.9.3/lib64/gcc/x86_64-fedoraunited-linux-gnu/4.9.3
sudo cp -p ../lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 .
sudo ln -s libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc_s.so
popd
# Fetch palemoon source
mkdir ~/pmsrc ~/pmbuild
cd ~/pmsrc
git clone https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/Pale-Moon.git .
# Prepare to compile
# use .mozconfig from (primary ref 1)
tf=~/pmsrc/.mozconfig
touch "${tf}"
cat <<'EOFMOZCONFIG' > "${tf}"
# Please see https://www.palemoon.org/redist.shtml for restrictions when using the official branding.
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
export MOZILLA_OFFICIAL=1
mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
ac_add_options --enable-application=browser
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=/home/$USER/pmbuild/
ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2 -msse2 -mfpmath=sse"
ac_add_options --with-pthreads
ac_add_options --disable-installer
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --enable-release
ac_add_options --enable-devtools
ac_add_options --enable-jemalloc
ac_add_options --enable-shared-js
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --x-libraries=/usr/lib
EOFMOZCONFIG
# Compile:
mkdir ~/log
cd ~/pmsrc
source /usr/bin/gcc49
{ time ./mach build ; } | tee -a ~/log/pmsrc.$( date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S" ).log
echo done
Future steps
Post these instructions on the fedora and palemoon fora. Ask Pale Moon devs if these can be adapted and shared on Reference 1.
References
Weblinks
primary
- http://developer.palemoon.org/Developer_Guide:Build_Instructions/Pale_Moon/Linux
- ensure lib files are in right dir: https://serverfault.com/questions/266138/cannot-find-lgcc-s-from-gcc-3-4-on-unbuntu-11-04/266141#266141
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