Author: ken
Date: Thu Apr 5 15:31:16 2018
New Revision: 20044
Log:
Firefox-59.0.2 and reword its note on how the SBUs vary, also extend the SBU
comments in the Conventions section.
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/conventions.xml
trunk/BOOK/packages.ent
trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Thu Apr 5 14:32:40
2018 (r20043)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Thu Apr 5 15:31:16
2018 (r20044)
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@
<para>April 5, 2018</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[ken] - Update to firefox-59.0.2 (security fix). Fixes
+ <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10557">#10557</ulink>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[ken] - Work around missing quotes in c_rehash from
openssl-1.1.0h so that make-ca will work again. Fixes
<ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10626">#10626</ulink>.</para>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/conventions.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/conventions.xml Thu Apr 5 14:32:40
2018 (r20043)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/conventions.xml Thu Apr 5 15:31:16
2018 (r20044)
@@ -234,9 +234,19 @@
the appropriate hardware, the speedup is not linear and to some extent
depends on the individual package and specific hardware used. </para>
+ <para>For packages which use ninja (e.g. anything using meson) or rust, by
+ default all cores are used so similar comments will be seen on such
packages
+ even when the build time is minimal.</para>
+
<para>Where even a parallel build takes more than 15 SBU, on certain
machines the time may be considerably greater even when the build does not
- use swap.</para>
+ use swap. In particular, different micro-architectures will build some
+ files at different relative speeds and this can introduce delays when
+ certain make targets wait for another file to be created. Where a large
+ build uses a lot of C++ files, processors with Simultaneous Multi Threading
+ will share the Floating Point Unit and can take 45% longer than when using
+ four 'prime' cores (measured on an intel i7 using taskset and keeping the
+ other cores idle).</para>
<para>Some packages do not support parallel builds and using -j1 for the
make command is required. Packages that are known to have such limits are
Modified: trunk/BOOK/packages.ent
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/packages.ent Thu Apr 5 14:32:40 2018 (r20043)
+++ trunk/BOOK/packages.ent Thu Apr 5 15:31:16 2018 (r20044)
@@ -732,7 +732,7 @@
<!-- Chapter 43 -->
<!ENTITY chromium-version "64.0.3282.186">
<!ENTITY epiphany-version "3.28.0.1">
-<!ENTITY firefox-version "59.0.1">
+<!ENTITY firefox-version "59.0.2">
<!ENTITY flashplayer-version "27.0.0.187">
<!ENTITY qupzilla-version "2.2.6">
<!ENTITY seamonkey-version "2.49.2">
Modified: trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml Thu Apr 5 14:32:40 2018
(r20043)
+++ trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml Thu Apr 5 15:31:16 2018
(r20044)
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@
<!--
<!ENTITY firefox-download-http
"&mozilla-http;/firefox/releases/&firefox-version;/source/firefox-&firefox-version;.source.tar.xz">
-->
- <!ENTITY firefox-hgversion "3db9e3d52b17563efca181ccbb50deb8660c59ae">
+ <!ENTITY firefox-hgversion "239e434d6d2b8e1e2b697c3416d1e96d48fe98e5">
<!-- use tinyurl to get a much shorter link for the wget example -->
- <!ENTITY firefox-tiny "https://tinyurl.com/firefox-59-0-1-tar-bz2";>
+ <!ENTITY firefox-tiny "https://tinyurl.com/firefox-59-0-2-tar-bz2";>
<!ENTITY firefox-download-http "&mozilla-hg;&firefox-hgversion;.tar.bz2">
<!ENTITY firefox-download-ftp " ">
- <!ENTITY firefox-md5sum "5aff0df363d778ebe0e572d6c9f13dbe">
+ <!ENTITY firefox-md5sum "fa4f7a5a7e2b2c7900369530b396b74a">
<!ENTITY firefox-size "291 MB">
<!-- NB with stylo, much of the build uses rust, and therefore cargo files.
But when building 58.0 on rustc-1.22.1 the extra files, if any, seem to be
minimal -->
@@ -128,12 +128,10 @@
</para>
<para>
- The build times for this version of firefox (using stylo, the new CSS
- rendering code) seem to vary widely between different machines. On one
- old Intel i3 with only 4GB of RAM the build took
- <emphasis>considerably</emphasis> longer. The reason for this is
- not understood. A build with stylo disabled is typically 1 or 2 SBU
- quicker and needs 0.8GB less disk space.
+ As with other large packages which use C++ (or rust), the SBU times
+ to build this vary more widely than you might expect. Also, almost 6GB
+ of real memory is used during the final link and the SBUs can increase
+ significantly if the machine has to swap to do this.
</para>
<para>
--
http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-book
FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html
Unsubscribe: See the above information page
