Changeset 326f830 for xsoft/graphweb

Timestamp:

01/24/2018 01:54:48 AM (6 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

13df334

Parents:

a37cebb

Message:

Firefox-58.0 and rustc-1.22.1. Firefox now sometimes needs libnotify to report success during the install (I managed some installs without that being present, others barfed at the end). This version of firefox has felt like 'In the beginning was the plan, ... and the darkness was upon the face of the workers ...' I hope it will be less painful for anybody using it.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@19693 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml (modified) (7 diffs)

xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml

@@ -7 +7 @@
   <!ENTITY firefox-download-http "&mozilla-http;/firefox/releases/&firefox-version;/source/firefox-&firefox-version;.source.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY firefox-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY firefox-md5sum        "18586d62f24671fa15f4a5dd7b19c09c">
-  <!ENTITY firefox-size          "239 MB">
-  <!ENTITY firefox-buildsize     "7.2 GB (148 MB installed) without tests">
+  <!ENTITY firefox-md5sum        "0d5b70d2cf074ed6716b13c3e8d43a18">
+  <!ENTITY firefox-size          "236 MB">
+  <!ENTITY firefox-buildsize     "7.4 GB (152 MB installed) without tests">
   <!ENTITY firefox-time          "20 SBU (with parallelism=4) without tests">
 ]>
@@ -75 +75 @@
         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 the build took 33 SBU. 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.
+        old Intel i3 the build took considerably 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.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        Although upstream prefer to use <application>PulseAudio</application>,
+        for the moment <application>Alsa</application> can still be used. Both
+        may need runtime configuration to get sound working.
       </para>
     </note>
@@ -123 +129 @@
       both <xref linkend="gtk3"/> and
       <xref linkend="gtk2"/>, 
+      <xref linkend="libnotify"/>,
       <xref linkend="nss"/>,
       <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>
       (or
       <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/> if you edit the mozconfig; 
-        now deprecated by mozilla), 
+        now deprecated by mozilla), in either case please read the
+        Configuration Information,
       <xref linkend="rust"/>,
       <xref linkend="unzip"/>,
@@ -345 +353 @@
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1341234
  which is reported to be fixed in ff58 -->
-<screen><userinput>export BINDGEN_CFLAGS=$(pkg-config --cflags nspr pixman-1) &amp;&amp;
-make -f client.mk                                          &amp;&amp;
-unset BINDGEN_CFLAGS</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>
+./mach build
+</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>
@@ -364 +372 @@
     </para>
 
-<screen role="root"><userinput>make -f client.mk install INSTALL_SDK= &amp;&amp;
-chown -R 0:0 /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;   &amp;&amp;
-
-mkdir -pv    /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins  &amp;&amp;
-ln    -sfv   ../../mozilla/plugins /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;/browser</userinput></screen>
+<screen role="root"><userinput>./mach install                                                  &amp;&amp;
+
+mkdir -pv  /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins                             &amp;&amp;
+ln    -sfv ../../mozilla/plugins /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;/browser</userinput></screen>
 <!--
     <para>
@@ -385 +392 @@
 
     <para>
-      <command>export BINDGEN_CFLAGS=$(pkg-config --cflags nspr pixman-1)</command>:
-      This works around a bug in the style rust package to allow it to find the
-      system headers for <package>nspr</package> and <package>pixman</package>.
-    </para>
-
-    <para>
-      <command>make -f client.mk ...</command>: Mozilla products are packaged to
-      allow the use of a configuration file which can be used to pass the
-      configuration settings to the <command>configure</command> command.
-      <command>make</command> uses the <filename>client.mk</filename> file to
-      get initial configuration and setup parameters.
+      <command>./mach build</command>: <application>Firefox</application>
+      now uses this <application>python2</application> script to run the
+      build and install.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      <option>./mach build --verbose</option>: Use this alternative if you
+      need details of which files are being compiled, together with any C or
+      C++ flags being used.
     </para>
 
@@ -449 +454 @@
         /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png</userinput></screen>
 
+    <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
+
+      <para>
+        The application settings for firefox are accessible by keying
+        <command>about:config</command> in the address bar.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        With this version of <application>firefox</application>, getting
+        working sound can be a problem.  Although upstream prefers pulseaudio,
+        on balance using <application>Alsa</application> may be easier.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        If you enabled <application>Alsa</application> for sound, you may need
+        to alter one variable to get working sound. If you run
+        <command>firefox</command> from a term and try to play something with
+        sound you might encounter error messages like:
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+         <literal>Sandbox: seccomp sandbox violation: pid 3941, tid 4030,
+         syscall 16, args 48 2147767296 139909894784796 0 0 0.</literal>
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        That was on x86_64, on i686 the syscall number is 54. To allow this
+        syscall, in <command>about:config</command> change
+        <command>security.sandbox.content.syscall_whitelist</command> to 16
+        (or 54 if using i686).
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        If you use <command>pulseaudio</command> in a Desktop Environment, it
+        might already be started by that DE.  But if it is not, although
+        firefox-57 managed to start it, firefox-58 does not.  If you run
+        <command>firefox</command> from a term, trying to play sound will
+        encounter error messages warning <literal>Can't get cubeb
+        context!</literal>
+      </para>
+
+    <para>
+      The fix for this is to close firefox, start pulseaudio to check it
+      does start (if not, read the information on Configuring in <xref
+      linkend="pulseaudio"/>) and restart firefox to check it is working.
+      If it now works, add the following to your <filename>~/.xinitrc</filename>:
+<phrase revision="sysv">
+<literal>pulseaudio --verbose --log-target=syslog&amp;</literal></phrase>
+<phrase revision="systemd">
+<literal>pulseaudio --verbose --log-target=journald&amp;</literal></phrase>
+        (unfortunately, on some systems this does not work).
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        You may wish to use multiple profiles within firefox. To do that, invoke
+        firefox as <command>firefox --ProfileManager</command>. You can also
+        check which profile is currently in use from
+        <command>about:profiles</command>.
+      </para>
+
+    </sect3>
   </sect2>