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Last change on this file was 6be57aad, checked in by Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>, 8 days ago

seamonkey: Enable SIMD optimization like Firefox and Thunderbird

The rust SIMD code has been updated in 2.53.18 release, thus we can now
enable it like Firefox and Thunderbird.

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY seamonkey-download-http "https://archive.seamonkey-project.org/releases/&seamonkey-version;/source/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;.source.tar.xz">
8 <!ENTITY seamonkey-download-ftp " ">
9 <!ENTITY seamonkey-md5sum "266a86651348e21934707a7ccb3abef3">
10 <!ENTITY seamonkey-size "241 MB">
11 <!ENTITY seamonkey-buildsize "3.0 GB (148 MB installed)">
12 <!ENTITY seamonkey-time "3.5 SBU (with parallelism=8)">
13]>
14
15<sect1 id="seamonkey" xreflabel="seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;">
16 <?dbhtml filename="seamonkey.html" ?>
17
18
19 <title>Seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;</title>
20
21 <indexterm zone="seamonkey">
22 <primary sortas="a-seamonkey">seamonkey</primary>
23 </indexterm>
24
25 <sect2 role="package">
26 <title>Introduction to Seamonkey</title>
27
28 <para>
29 <application>Seamonkey</application> is a browser suite, a descendant
30 of <application>Netscape</application>. It includes the browser,
31 composer, mail and news clients, and an IRC client.
32 </para>
33
34 <para>
35 It is the community-driven follow-on to the Mozilla Application Suite,
36 created after Mozilla decided to focus on separate applications for
37 browsing and e-mail. Those applications are
38 <xref linkend="firefox"/> and <xref linkend="thunderbird"/>.
39 </para>
40
41 &lfs121_checked;
42
43 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
44 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
45 <listitem>
46 <para>
47 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&seamonkey-download-http;"/>
48 </para>
49 </listitem>
50 <listitem>
51 <para>
52 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&seamonkey-download-ftp;"/>
53 </para>
54 </listitem>
55 <listitem>
56 <para>
57 Download MD5 sum: &seamonkey-md5sum;
58 </para>
59 </listitem>
60 <listitem>
61 <para>
62 Download size: &seamonkey-size;
63 </para>
64 </listitem>
65 <listitem>
66 <para>
67 Estimated disk space required: &seamonkey-buildsize;
68 </para>
69 </listitem>
70 <listitem>
71 <para>
72 Estimated build time: &seamonkey-time;
73 </para>
74 </listitem>
75 </itemizedlist>
76
77 <!--
78 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
79 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
80 <listitem>
81 <para>
82 Required patch:
83 <ulink url="&patch-root;/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;-consolidated_fixes-1.patch"/>
84 </para>
85 </listitem>
86 <listitem>
87 <para>
88 Required Python module:
89 <ulink url="&pymodules-dl;/s/setuptools/setuptools-&setuptools-version;.tar.gz"/>
90 </para>
91 <para>
92 This module has already been installed in LFS, but now we need
93 to rebuild its wheel package for the SeaMonkey build system.
94 </para>
95 </listitem>
96 </itemizedlist>
97 -->
98
99 <note>
100 <para>
101 The tarball
102 <emphasis>seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;.source.tar.xz</emphasis> will
103 untar to <emphasis>seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;</emphasis> directory.
104 </para>
105 </note>
106
107 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Seamonkey Dependencies</bridgehead>
108
109 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
110 <para role="required">
111 <!--xref linkend="autoconf213"/-->
112 <xref linkend="cbindgen"/>,
113 <xref linkend="gtk3"/>,
114 <xref linkend="nodejs"/>,
115 <xref linkend="python311"/>,
116 <xref linkend="unzip"/>,
117 <xref linkend="yasm"/>, and
118 <xref linkend="zip"/>
119 </para>
120
121 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
122 <para role="recommended">
123 <xref linkend="icu"/>,
124 <xref linkend="libevent"/>,
125 <!--<xref linkend="libvpx"/>, Causes build failures similar to Firefox -->
126 <xref linkend="libwebp"/>,
127 <xref linkend="llvm"/> (with clang),
128 <xref linkend="nasm"/>,
129 <xref linkend="nspr"/>,
130 <xref linkend="nss"/>, and
131 <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>
132 <!-- <xref linkend="sqlite"/> system version no longer supported -->
133 </para>
134<!--
135 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
136 <para role="optional">
137 <xref linkend="sqlite"/> (not recommended due to potential
138 security concerns)
139 </para>
140-->
141 <note>
142 <para>
143 If you don't install recommended dependencies, then internal copies of
144 those packages will be used. They might be tested to work, but they can
145 be out of date or contain security holes.
146 </para>
147 </note>
148
149 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
150 <para role="optional">
151 <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>,
152 <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
153 <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>,
154 <xref linkend="valgrind"/>,
155 <xref linkend="wget"/>,
156 <xref linkend="wireless_tools"/>,
157 <ulink url="https://hunspell.sourceforge.net/">Hunspell</ulink>,
158 <ulink url="https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gconf">Gconf</ulink>, and
159 <ulink url="https://facebook.github.io/watchman/">Watchman</ulink>
160 </para>
161
162 </sect2>
163
164 <sect2 role="installation">
165 <title>Installation of Seamonkey</title>
166
167 <para>
168 The configuration of <application>Seamonkey</application> is accomplished
169 by creating a <filename>mozconfig</filename> file containing the desired
170 configuration options. A default <filename>mozconfig</filename> file is
171 created below. To see the entire list of available configuration options
172 (and an abbreviated description of each one), issue
173 <command>./configure --help</command>. You may also wish to review the
174 entire file and uncomment any other desired options. Create the file by
175 issuing the following command:
176 </para>
177
178<screen><?dbfo keep-together="auto"?><userinput>cat &gt; mozconfig &lt;&lt; "EOF"
179<literal># If you have a multicore machine, all cores will be used
180
181# If you have installed DBus-Glib comment out this line:
182ac_add_options --disable-dbus
183
184# If you have installed dbus-glib, and you have installed (or will install)
185# wireless-tools, and you wish to use geolocation web services, comment out
186# this line
187ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi
188
189# Uncomment these lines if you have installed optional dependencies:
190#ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell
191#ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification
192
193# Uncomment the following option if you have not installed PulseAudio
194#ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio
195# and uncomment this if you installed alsa-lib instead of PulseAudio
196#ac_add_options --enable-alsa
197
198# Comment out the following option if you have gconf installed
199ac_add_options --disable-gconf
200
201# Comment out following options if you have not installed
202# recommended dependencies:
203ac_add_options --with-system-icu
204ac_add_options --with-system-libevent
205ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
206ac_add_options --with-system-nss
207ac_add_options --with-system-webp
208
209# Disabling debug symbols makes the build much smaller and a little
210# faster. Comment this if you need to run a debugger.
211ac_add_options --disable-debug-symbols
212<!-- With Firefox ESR 128 we'd replace the following part with
213"- -enable-elf-hack=relr", or remove it if relr becomes the default.
214But I've no idea if SeaMonkey will have this change backported. -->
215# The elf-hack is reported to cause failed installs (after successful builds)
216# on some machines. It is supposed to improve startup time and it shrinks
217# libxul.so by a few MB. With recent Binutils releases the linker already
218# supports a much safer and generic way for this.
219ac_add_options --disable-elf-hack
220ac_add_options --enable-linker=bfd
221export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs"
222
223# Seamonkey has some additional features that are not turned on by default,
224# such as an IRC client, calendar, and DOM Inspector. The DOM Inspector
225# aids with designing web pages. Comment these options if you do not
226# desire these features.
227ac_add_options --enable-calendar
228ac_add_options --enable-dominspector
229ac_add_options --enable-irc
230
231# The BLFS editors recommend not changing anything below this line:
232ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
233ac_add_options --enable-application=comm/suite
234
235ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
236ac_add_options --disable-updater
237ac_add_options --disable-tests
238
239# This enables SIMD optimization in the shipped encoding_rs crate.
240ac_add_options --enable-rust-simd
241
242ac_add_options --enable-strip
243ac_add_options --enable-install-strip
244
245# You cannot distribute the binary if you do this.
246ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
247
248# The option to use system cairo was removed in 2.53.9.
249ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
250ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman
251
252ac_add_options --with-system-bz2
253ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
254ac_add_options --with-system-png
255ac_add_options --with-system-zlib
256
257export CC=clang CXX=clang++</literal>
258EOF</userinput></screen>
259
260 <note>
261 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
262 href="../../xincludes/mozshm.xml"/>
263 </note>
264
265<!-- Restore when no longer using Python 3.11. We may want to restore the patch
266 at that point as well, which includes the 'distro' and 'ICU' changes. -renodr
267 <para>
268 First, fix several problems that occur with Python-3.12 and ICU-74.
269 If you are not using ICU-74 and Python-3.12, do not apply this patch.
270 </para>
271
272<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;-consolidated_fixes-1.patch</userinput></screen>
273
274 <para>
275 Next, if you are using Python-3.12, reinstall the setuptools package for
276 Seamonkey, and update it's vendored copy of pip:
277 </para>
278
279<screen><userinput>ln -sv /usr/lib/python&python3-majorver;/ensurepip/_bundled/pip-*.whl \
280 third_party/python/virtualenv/virtualenv_support &amp;&amp;
281
282tar xf ../setuptools-&setuptools-version;.tar.gz &amp;&amp;
283pip3 wheel - -no-build-isolation - -no-deps - -no-cache-dir \
284 $PWD/setuptools-&setuptools-version; \
285 -w third_party/python/virtualenv/virtualenv_support</userinput></screen>
286-->
287
288 <para>
289 First, if you are building with system ICU, adapt the line break mapping
290 for ICU-74 and later:
291 </para>
292
293<screen><userinput remap="pre">(for i in {43..47}; do
294 sed '/ZWJ/s/$/,CLASS_CHARACTER/' -i intl/lwbrk/LineBreaker.cpp || exit $?
295done)</userinput></screen>
296
297 <para>
298 Next, fix a problem with the bundled 'distro' python module:
299 </para>
300
301<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -e '1012 s/stderr=devnull/stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL/' \
302 -e '1013 s/OSError/(OSError, subprocess.CalledProcessError)/' \
303 -i third_party/python/distro/distro.py</userinput></screen>
304
305 <para>
306 Compile <application>Seamonkey</application> by running the following
307 commands:
308 </para>
309
310<screen><userinput>export PATH_PY311=/opt/python3.11/bin:$PATH &amp;&amp;
311PATH=$PATH_PY311 AUTOCONF=true ./mach build</userinput></screen>
312
313 <para>
314 This package does not come with a test suite.
315 </para>
316
317 <para>
318 Install <application>Seamonkey</application> by issuing the following
319 commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
320 </para>
321
322 <note>
323 <para>
324 If <command>sudo</command> or <command>su</command> is invoked for
325 opening a shell running as the &root; user, ensure
326 <envar>PATH_PY311</envar> is correctly passed or the
327 following command will fail. For <command>sudo</command>, use the
328 <option>--preserve-env=PATH_PY311</option> option.
329 For <command>su</command>, do <emphasis>not</emphasis> use the
330 <option>-</option> or <option>--login</option> options.
331 </para>
332 </note>
333
334<screen role="root"><userinput>PATH=$PATH_PY311 ./mach install &amp;&amp;
335chown -R 0:0 /usr/lib/seamonkey &amp;&amp;
336
337cp -v $(find -name seamonkey.1 | head -n1) /usr/share/man/man1</userinput></screen>
338
339 <para>
340 Finally, unset the <envar>PATH_PY311</envar> variable:
341 </para>
342
343<screen><userinput>unset $PATH_PY311</userinput></screen>
344
345 </sect2>
346
347 <sect2 role="commands">
348 <title>Command Explanations</title>
349
350 <para>
351 <command>export CC=clang CXX=clang++</command>:
352 With the introduction of <application>gcc-12</application>, many
353 more warnings are generated when compiling mozilla applications
354 and that results in a much slower, and larger, build. Furthermore,
355 building with GCC on i?86 is currently broken.
356 Although upstream mozilla code defaults to using
357 <application>llvm</application> unless overridden, the older configure
358 code in <application>Seamonkey</application> defaults to gcc.
359 </para>
360
361<!--
362 <para>
363 <command>AUTOCONF=true ./mach configure</command>: This validates
364 the supplied dependencies and the <filename>mozconfig</filename>.
365 The building system always checks for an old version (2.13) of
366 autoconf, but it's not really needed because the necessary
367 <command>configure</command> scripts are already shipped in the
368 tarball and we've not modified the <filename>configure.in</filename>
369 files. So we pass <envar>AUTOCONF=true</envar> so the building system
370 will skip the checking for autoconf-2.13 and allow building this
371 package without autoconf-2.13 installed.
372 </para>
373-->
374
375 <para>
376 <option>./mach build --verbose</option>: Use this alternative if you
377 need details of which files are being compiled, together with any C or
378 C++ flags being used. But do not add '--verbose' to the install command,
379 it is not accepted there.
380 </para>
381
382 <para>
383 <option>./mach build -jN</option>: The build should, by default, use
384 all the online CPU cores. If using all the cores causes the build to swap
385 because you have insufficient memory, using fewer cores can be faster.
386 </para>
387
388 </sect2>
389
390 <sect2 role="configuration">
391 <title>Configuring Seamonkey</title>
392
393 <para>
394 For installing various <application>Seamonkey</application> add-ons, refer
395 to <ulink url="https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/seamonkey/">Add-ons
396 for Seamonkey</ulink>.
397 </para>
398
399 <para>
400 Along with using the <quote>Preferences</quote> menu to configure
401 <application>Seamonkey</application>'s options and preferences to suit
402 individual tastes, finer grain control of many options is only available
403 using a tool not available from the general menu system. To access this
404 tool, you'll need to open a browser window and enter
405 <systemitem role="url">about:config</systemitem> in the address bar. This
406 will display a list of the configuration preferences and information
407 related to each one. You can use the <quote>Search:</quote> bar to enter
408 search criteria and narrow down the listed items. Changing a preference
409 can be done using two methods. One, if the preference has a boolean value
410 (True/False), simply double-click on the preference to toggle the value
411 and two, for other preferences simply right-click on the desired line,
412 choose <quote>Modify</quote> from the menu and change the value. Creating
413 new preference items is accomplished in the same way, except choose
414 <quote>New</quote> from the menu and provide the desired data into the
415 fields when prompted.
416 </para>
417
418 <para>
419 If you use a desktop environment like <application>Gnome</application> or
420 <application>KDE</application> you may wish to create a
421 <filename>seamonkey.desktop</filename> file so that
422 <application>Seamonkey</application> appears in the panel's menus. If you
423 didn't enable <application>Startup-Notification</application> in your
424 mozconfig change the StartupNotify line to false. As the
425 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
426 </para>
427
428<screen role="root"><userinput>mkdir -pv /usr/share/{applications,pixmaps} &amp;&amp;
429
430cat &gt; /usr/share/applications/seamonkey.desktop &lt;&lt; "EOF"
431<literal>[Desktop Entry]
432Encoding=UTF-8
433Type=Application
434Name=Seamonkey
435Comment=The Mozilla Suite
436Icon=seamonkey
437Exec=seamonkey
438Categories=Network;GTK;Application;Email;Browser;WebBrowser;News;
439StartupNotify=true
440Terminal=false</literal>
441EOF
442
443ln -sfv /usr/lib/seamonkey/chrome/icons/default/default128.png \
444 /usr/share/pixmaps/seamonkey.png</userinput></screen>
445 </sect2>
446
447 <sect2 role="content">
448 <title>Contents</title>
449
450 <segmentedlist>
451 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
452 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
453 <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
454
455 <seglistitem>
456 <seg>seamonkey</seg>
457 <seg>
458 Numerous libraries, browser, and email/newsgroup components, plugins,
459 extensions, and helper modules installed in
460 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/seamonkey</filename>
461 </seg>
462 <seg>
463 /usr/lib/seamonkey
464 </seg>
465 </seglistitem>
466 </segmentedlist>
467
468 <variablelist>
469 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
470 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
471 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
472
473 <varlistentry id="seamonkey-prog">
474 <term><command>seamonkey</command></term>
475 <listitem>
476 <para>
477 is the Mozilla browser/email/newsgroup/chat client suite
478 </para>
479 <indexterm zone="seamonkey seamonkey-prog">
480 <primary sortas="b-seamonkey">seamonkey</primary>
481 </indexterm>
482 </listitem>
483 </varlistentry>
484 </variablelist>
485 </sect2>
486
487</sect1>
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