Thu, 23 Dec 2021 22:38:27 +0100 - aitor <aitor_...@gnuinos.org>: > Hi, > > On 23/12/21 20:56, al3xu5 via Dng wrote: > > Until some time ago I was able to build the old versions of X, > > certainly until 52.x. -- I had also made a guide for building Icecat: > > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:IceCat/Compile_and_package/build_52.6.0_on_Devuan_2.0.0_ASCII_64bit > > > > Now the building process seems changed. So, please, could anyone give a > > guide (even if schematic) on how to build current Firefox/Icecat > > releases? > > I did it recently. > > PREREQUISITES: > > I recommend a fresh install of devuan chimaera amd64 on a computer with > 8G RAM, and a swap partition of 16 GB.
I have 32GB RAM and 16GB swap. So it should be ok. But I am still on Beowulf. Hope to upgrade soon... > ------------------ HOWTO -------------------------- > > Here you are a quick guide: > > - Add the repository of gnuinos chimaera > > - Download the sources of icecat-78.15. They contain all the lang-packs: > > $ apt-get source icecat > > - Init an empty git repository and import the description file of icecat: > > $ gbp import-dsc ../icecat*.dsc > > - Adjust debian/browser.mozconfig.in to suite your needs (see the > section "Configure the build" in your link above). > > - Install git-buildpackage, quilt, pbuilder and cowbuilder > > - Create a jail containing a base system of devuan chimaera i386 > in /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow: > > $ sudo cowbuilder --create --distribution="chimaera" > --architecture="i386" --mirror http://deb.devuan.org/merged > > - Build the packages: > > $ gbp buildpackage --git-pbuilder --git-pbuilder-options="--host-arch > i386" --git-export-dir="../build-area" > > git-buildpackage will ask you for sudo's password, and probably you'll > need to install previously aptitude in the jail. If so, > chroot /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow and install aptitude. All the build > dependencies will be installed automatically. > > The packages of icecat i386 will appear in ../build-area. > > Good lock :) > > Aitor. I will try after my Chimaera upgrade. Thank you Aitor. al3xu5 -- Say NO to copyright, patents, trademarks and industrial design restrictions! ____________________________________________________________________________ Public GPG/PGP key: 8FC2 3121 2803 86E9 F7D8 B624 DA50 835B 2624 A36B
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