Compile Pale Moon 28 on Fedora 27

bgstack15

2018-08-17 21:23

Introduction

Pale Moon 28 was released on August 16, 2018. I package it myself on Fedora because I don't see it in the fedora repositories, and plus I like the experience of assembling packages myself. For a basic compile (not in an rpm), you can follow these instructions.

Install dependencies

Install the whole set of packages listed on the Pale Moon site (reference 2) or 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 the dependencies I found.

sudo dnf -y install GConf2-devel notification-daemon

Use autoconf 2.13

Pale Moon depends on autoconf 2.13. Thankfully, it's in the Fedora repos, but changing the main autoconf link to point to this specific version will save a bunch of headache later. Be aware that this step exactly as shown will change your system's default autoconf. I'm sure this is a crude way to do it, but aren't build systems throwaway systems nowadays?

autoconfver="$( autoconf --version 2>/dev/null | awk 'NR==1 {print $NF*100;} END {print "0";}' | head -n1 )"
test ${autoconfver} -ne 213 &&amp 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

Fetch source

Pale Moon likes to compile in ~/pmsrc. Don't change it. It just makes it easier.

mkdir ~/pmsrc ~/pmbuild
cd ~/pmsrc
git clone https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP .

Prepare to compile

Use the recommended .mozconfig from the Pale Moon site (reference 2)

tf=~/pmsrc/.mozconfig
touch "${tf}"
cat <<'EOFMOZCONFIG' > "${tf}"
mk_add_options AUTOCLOBBER=1
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=/home/$USER/pmbuild/
ac_add_options --enable-application=palemoon

ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2"

# 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

ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2
ac_add_options --enable-jemalloc
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --with-pthreads

ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-eme
ac_add_options --disable-parental-controls
ac_add_options --disable-accessibility
ac_add_options --disable-webrtc
ac_add_options --disable-gamepad
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi
ac_add_options --disable-updater

ac_add_options --x-libraries=/usr/lib
EOFMOZCONFIG

Compile

These instructions include saving the output to a log file, but that's not necessary.

mkdir ~/log
cd ~/pmsrc
{ time ./mach build && time ./mach package ; } | tee -a ~/log/pmsrc.$( date "+%F-%H%M%S" ).log
echo done

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