[SUSPECTED SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about Pale Moon

[Walter Dnes]

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).  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?

> This is with gcc 4.9.4, and I get the same with gcc 6.4.0. I've only just
> noticed that about -fPIC; haven't all those problems been fixed by now?

  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

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications