Minefield (aka Firefox-cvs, Gran Paradiso)

Dottout · l33t Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 882

gcc-4.1.2

Dottout · l33t Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 882

hm..apparently there was something wrong with my toolchain, I rebuilt it and did emerge -e world..after this, i recompiled again minefield. now it works. sorry for the waste of time

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject:

Sorry, it seems I have created a little bit of chaos here

I have committed yesterday a new ebuild -r1, it does not use system nspr/nss - so the question is how many of you are using the nspr-4.7.0_rc1 ebuild, the minefield-9999 ebuild, and does not have problems, and who are using minefield-9999-r1 ebuild?
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Dottout · l33t Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 882

ok, after 3 merge im at this point: I tried minefield-9999 and -r1, both with nspr-4.7.0_rc1 and both segfault, then I tried my old ebuild ( www.dottout.com/mozilla-firefox-9999.ebuild ) with nspr-4.7.0_rc1 and it works (probably it uses its own nspr, but im sure you know better than me how a cvs ebuild works) tomorrow if I have some spare time ill try minefield-9999-r1 with nspr_4.6.0

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject:

No need it seems that the problem is not in nspr, and -r1 uses internal nspr/nss so there should be no difference - the thing was that you had segfaults with the normal firefox - so I thought it could be the nspr checkout.
The thing which I see in your build is that you are using mozilla's cairo and probably no glitz, (and it uses the system nss/nspr).
Well the 666 patch makes possible to use system cairo, I didn't make it very "correct" (it works, but in no way would be accepted upstream - it is quick fix) I mean after I've seen a bug open about this for some 3-4 months and very strange answers from the developers and so on...
So the question is more what for cairo and glitz versions do you have, (I'm using the xeffects overlay, xcb) and running beryl. It could be possible to disable glitz, but in the moment the way it is handled is to use glitz.
A backtrace with be really usefull.
I could add cairo-glitz as a use flag, sth along the lines system/mozilla-included, if this really is cairo/glitz related.
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My fonts looks ugly with new firefox... I'm using boniek patch, but it doesn't work with this version of firefox.

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Master_Of_Disaster · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject:

http://img458.imageshack.us/my.php?image=snapshot2jl2.png

Minefield-9999-r1 shows me this, no matter how often I restart it. Happens with other extensions too, so something seems to be broken.
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Gergan Penkov · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 9:39 pm Post subject:

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 11:51 pm Post subject:

Ok I've committed -r2, -r3 and nss checkout (it is live ebuild, as I couldn't upload the checkout to google for some reason).
Some explanations -r2 is just one that depends on nss-checkout and enables places, -r3 has the system-uconv patch (I'll be adding new versions when I have time to test new patches, especially for building against system libs - myspell will probably be the next one). Nss uses new patches from debian, and I have bumped the so-version (as they are differences in the api/abi) so you'll need to revdep-rebuild after that.
As to the DOM Inspector - you need to enable mozdeveloper (probably should be patched to remove it altogether, when it is disabled) - I have tried and installed flashblock without problems, but I didn't have time to test with other extensions.
It seems that the new firefox is less memory hungry, at least it takes less memory than liferea, galeon and older firefoxes.
I don't have problems with the fonts either in fact they are better than the firefox-2 ones here.
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_pF_ · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 6:03 pm Post subject:

Firefox? Firedog, more like, and it should be put out of its misery.

Compare the performance of Firefox and Dillo. Using Dillo is like upgrading your computer, but, sure, it's limited in its features.

Minefield is just laden with extras that render it - an already slow and leaky process - too slow to be usable.

Master_Of_Disaster · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:13 pm Post subject:

http://rafb.net/p/Zgh5a337.html - cvs snapshot from 5 minutes ago fails with the -r3 ebuild
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Gergan Penkov · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 10:30 pm Post subject:

What for gcc-version are you using, if it is 4.2 - it will explain the error?
The problem is that I've removed the security and nsprpub dirs from the checkout as they are some 10-15 MB and they are already installed through nss/nspr. But looking why it does not happens here and it happens on your system is because from config/Makefile.in:

Master_Of_Disaster · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 12:34 am Post subject:

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 10:41 pm Post subject:

I've committed a new version to the repository -r4 (fixed -r3 for gcc-4.2) - the new thing is that it uses system hunspell, I've added hunspell-1.1.5 as the one in portage does not have pkg-config files and I don't think that anything uses it, as I've seen open bugs about breaking enchant. I've added to it some debian patches and it works ok with minefield. Enchant compiles with it also without problems, but I haven't tested rebuilding oo against it - the only other consumer.
As to the system hunspell, I thought that I could use the patches from glandium, but they were for myspell and 2.0 so were of not of great use. The good news is that making the new patches, I've decided to resolve the problem with the installation of dictionaries, so now you could just install myspell-* dictionaries with your favorite pkg-manager and they should work out of the box with it. In fact without installing such there will be no useful dictionaries

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Insanity5902 · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 3:52 pm Post subject:

Has anybody had problems with CA Authorities not being loaded properly.

I have tried searching on this but I can't find anything. I can mainly import them from /usr/share/ca-certificates, but there are a lot and this is really kind of annoying.
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Gergan Penkov · Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 4:50 pm Post subject:

Well I didn't know that the problem is with the CA Authorities, but I have problems with secure sites most of them are not recognized correctly and the confirmation dialog show up. I'll look at it tomorrow probably.
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Insanity5902 · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 2:18 am Post subject:

Yeah, that is what I get, when I go and look at the CA authorities known are listed, I go add the one that has signed that sites cert, and it doesn't ask me.

I close Firefox and reopen and go back and it ask me again, I go look at the CA's known are listed, I switch tabs and then go back to the CA tab and the one I imported is there, and I can once again load that page without accepting the unknown cert, the difference is I didn't have re-import it, just switching tabs causing it to re-read already imported certs .... pretty crazy.
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wuno · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 8:37 am Post subject:

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 9:23 am Post subject:

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 11:41 am Post subject:

Well I have found what causes the CA Cert issue and after that through bonsai the cause for it - I'll make a patch probably today to solve it as mozilla does not think that it is their problem (as always

).
ref: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362980 and this also is connected to the lost certs https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379582
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wuno · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 12:38 pm Post subject:

Insanity5902 · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 5:20 pm Post subject:

Damn I suck, I couldn't find those bugs for the life of me.

Ah well, thanks for finding them.

I read through them and one of the fixes work, there is no need to write a patch, just add

Insanity5902 · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 5:43 pm Post subject:

A Couple of other notes,

Since this is a an overlay, of a cvs build, of an alpha product

I will add a few optimizations I have found to work

1) I am able to compile with -Os without any problems at all, not sure if it is helping load times, but since -Os focuses on size I figured it was worth a try.

2) I am able to use make -j3 without any compile or runtime issues.

I might try a few others later, but so far I am happy with this. the Load times after a fresh boot do seem to be a bit faster, but again, no numbers, so take it with a grain of salt.
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