Author: ken
Date: Sun Oct 28 14:15:43 2018
New Revision: 20655
Log:
Firefox: stop recommending system ICU, and use clang to save build space.
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Sun Oct 28 13:16:26
2018 (r20654)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Sun Oct 28 14:15:43
2018 (r20655)
@@ -45,6 +45,12 @@
<para>October 28th, 2018</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[ken] - Change the firefox instructions: stop recommending
system
+ ICU because the build fails with the current version, and change to
+ using clang which saves build space (measurement is for 7.0, but 6.0
is
+ good enough and smaller).</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[ken] - Update to xorg-server-1.20.3 [security fix]. Fixes
<ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;11284">#11284</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml Sun Oct 28 13:16:26 2018
(r20654)
+++ trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml Sun Oct 28 14:15:43 2018
(r20655)
@@ -10,8 +10,11 @@
<!ENTITY firefox-size "254 MB">
<!-- NB with stylo, much of the build uses rust, and therefore cargo files.
But the extra cached cargo files, if any, seem to be minimal -->
- <!ENTITY firefox-buildsize "9.9 GB (141 MB installed) without tests">
- <!ENTITY firefox-time "30 SBU (with parallelism=4) without tests">
+ <!ENTITY firefox-buildsize "9.0 GB (153 MB installed) without tests">
+ <!-- editors: with ff63 and rust-1.29, ./mach build -j4 is probably the
+ most practical way to get a timing on a machine with more cores. If in
+ doubt, round up -->
+ <!ENTITY firefox-time "22 SBU (with parallelism=4) without tests">
]>
<sect1 id="firefox" xreflabel="Firefox-&firefox-version;">
@@ -153,7 +156,7 @@
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
<para role="recommended">
- <xref linkend="icu"/>,
+<!-- <xref linkend="icu"/>, with icu <61 or >62, JSContext FTBFS -->
<xref linkend="libevent"/>,
<xref linkend="libvpx"/>,
<xref linkend="nodejs"/>, and
@@ -242,9 +245,9 @@
# If you have installed GConf, comment out this line
ac_add_options --disable-gconf
-# Uncomment this if you have not installed nodejs
-# but note that nodejs will be required in firefox-64
-#ac_add_options --disable-nodejs
+# Uncomment this if you have not installed nodejs,
+# but note that nodejs will be required in firefox-64
+#ac_add_options --disable-nodejs
# From firefox-61, the stylo CSS code can no-longer be disabled
@@ -255,7 +258,15 @@
ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx
ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
ac_add_options --with-system-nss
-ac_add_options --with-system-icu
+
+# Only enable system icu if the version is 61 or 62
+#ac_add_options --with-system-icu
+
+# The gold linker is no-longer the default
+ac_add_options --enable-linker=gold
+
+# You cannot distribute the binary if you do this
+ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
# If you are going to apply the patch for system graphite
# and system harfbuzz, uncomment these lines:
@@ -280,8 +291,6 @@
# Optimization for size is broken with gcc7 and later
ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2"
-ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
-
# From firefox-61 system cairo is not supported
ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
@@ -344,7 +353,9 @@
Invoke the Python script to compile the package:
</para>
-<screen><userinput>./mach build</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>export CC=clang CXX=clang++ AR=llvm-ar NM=llvm-nm
RANLIB=llvm-ranlib &&
+./mach build &&
+unset CC CXX AR NM RANLIB</userinput></screen>
<para>
The <filename>mozconfig</filename> above disables the tests because
@@ -381,6 +392,12 @@
<title>Command Explanations</title>
<para>
+ <command>export CC=clang CXX=clang++ ...</command>: Upstream now use
+ <application>clang</application> and building with any recent version
+ saves a lot of space.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
<command>./mach build</command>: <application>Firefox</application>
now uses this <application>python2</application> script to run the
build and install.
@@ -393,6 +410,18 @@
</para>
<para>
+ <option>./mach build -j4</option>: In theory, <command>mach</command>
+ will use the number of online CPU cores - but on some machines the bulk
+ of the build will drag on as if only 1 core is present. Specifying the
+ number of jobs (4 in this example) fixes that. Unlike traditional
+ recommendations for running <command>make</command>, the exact number
+ of cores is usually fastest - exceptionally, N+1 may be better on a
+ well-specified modern machine. But do NOT use this if building from a
+ term where <command>taskset</command> has been used to restrict the
+ available cores.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
<command>mkdir -pv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins</command>: This ensures
that <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/</filename>
exists.
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