On Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:40:18 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:43:31AM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote
> 
> > On Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:27:21 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, I do have them both installed already.
> > 
> > > Is this the official Pale Moon, or an unofficial build?
> > 
> > It's www-client/palemoon-bin-27.7.1::palemoon. I don't know whether
> > that's "official", because when I "layman -a palemoon" I'm told it's
> > not an official overlay. Different officialdoms, I suppose.
> 
> Disclosure... I'm a volunteer for the Pale Moon project (not an official
> spokesman).

Yes, I'd gathered that. Kudos to you :)

> I do a contributed build for Pentium3-class machines.  My idea of
> "official" is obviously "from the Pale Moon website".  Can you do a quick-
> n-dirty install from the official tarball to check if the icon problem
> happens with the official Pale Moon?  This test will install into $HOME/pm
> 
> 1) Go to http://linux.palemoon.org/download/mainline/ and download the
> appropriate (32 or 64 bit) tarball for your system.
> 
> 2) killall palemoon  # Ignore error message if Pale Moon not running.
> 
> 3) rm -rf $HOME/pm && mkdir $HOME/pm  # Start from a known state
> 
> 4) tar -C $HOME/pm -xvjf <tarball_name>  # Extract tarball
> 
> 5) $HOME/pm/palemoon/palemoon  # Launch Pale Moon
> 
>   Note; this install is self-contained.  It does not splatter stuff all
> over various library directories.  Does the icon problem still happen
> with the official tarball?

'Fraid so, and I still get those undefined-symbol errors I mentioned.

> > This is with gcc 4.9.4, and I get the same with gcc 6.4.0.
> 
> 6.3.0 builds Pale Moon OK on profile 13.  I'll soon be doing the switch
> over to 17 on my 32-bit desktop.  You might be able to get things working
> with custom flags for the Pale Moon ebuild using package.env as per... 
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.env

Hmm. I'll have to put my thinking-cap on for that. Maybe tomorrow. This is 
what portage wants to do (I'm on profile 17.0):

[ebuild  N    #] www-client/palemoon-27.7.1::palemoon  USE="alsa dbus 
devtools gtk2 official-branding optimize -debug -ffmpeg (-gtk3) -jemalloc -
necko-wifi -pulseaudio -shared-js -system-bzip2 -system-libevent -system-
libvpx -system-libwebp -system-sqlite -system-zlib -threads -valgrind -
webrtc" CPU_FLAGS_X86="sse sse2" 0 KiB

-- 
Regards,
Peter.


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