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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [SUSPECTED SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about Pale Moon
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 23:16:59
Message-Id: 4926103.MoIFFka3yf@peak
In Reply to: [SUSPECTED SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about Pale Moon by Walter Dnes
1 On Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:40:18 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:43:31AM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote
3 >
4 > > On Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:27:21 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
5 > >
6 > > Yes, I do have them both installed already.
7 > >
8 > > > Is this the official Pale Moon, or an unofficial build?
9 > >
10 > > It's www-client/palemoon-bin-27.7.1::palemoon. I don't know whether
11 > > that's "official", because when I "layman -a palemoon" I'm told it's
12 > > not an official overlay. Different officialdoms, I suppose.
13 >
14 > Disclosure... I'm a volunteer for the Pale Moon project (not an official
15 > spokesman).
16
17 Yes, I'd gathered that. Kudos to you :)
18
19 > I do a contributed build for Pentium3-class machines. My idea of
20 > "official" is obviously "from the Pale Moon website". Can you do a quick-
21 > n-dirty install from the official tarball to check if the icon problem
22 > happens with the official Pale Moon? This test will install into $HOME/pm
23 >
24 > 1) Go to http://linux.palemoon.org/download/mainline/ and download the
25 > appropriate (32 or 64 bit) tarball for your system.
26 >
27 > 2) killall palemoon # Ignore error message if Pale Moon not running.
28 >
29 > 3) rm -rf $HOME/pm && mkdir $HOME/pm # Start from a known state
30 >
31 > 4) tar -C $HOME/pm -xvjf <tarball_name> # Extract tarball
32 >
33 > 5) $HOME/pm/palemoon/palemoon # Launch Pale Moon
34 >
35 > Note; this install is self-contained. It does not splatter stuff all
36 > over various library directories. Does the icon problem still happen
37 > with the official tarball?
38
39 'Fraid so, and I still get those undefined-symbol errors I mentioned.
40
41 > > This is with gcc 4.9.4, and I get the same with gcc 6.4.0.
42 >
43 > 6.3.0 builds Pale Moon OK on profile 13. I'll soon be doing the switch
44 > over to 17 on my 32-bit desktop. You might be able to get things working
45 > with custom flags for the Pale Moon ebuild using package.env as per...
46 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.env
47
48 Hmm. I'll have to put my thinking-cap on for that. Maybe tomorrow. This is
49 what portage wants to do (I'm on profile 17.0):
50
51 [ebuild N #] www-client/palemoon-27.7.1::palemoon USE="alsa dbus
52 devtools gtk2 official-branding optimize -debug -ffmpeg (-gtk3) -jemalloc -
53 necko-wifi -pulseaudio -shared-js -system-bzip2 -system-libevent -system-
54 libvpx -system-libwebp -system-sqlite -system-zlib -threads -valgrind -
55 webrtc" CPU_FLAGS_X86="sse sse2" 0 KiB
56
57 --
58 Regards,
59 Peter.