Compile Pale Moon 28 on Fedora

[bgstack15]

I have successfully compiled Pale Moon 28.0.0 on Fedora 27 (my personal blog).
For those of you who do not wish to click through to the link for any reason, here are the directions. They are modified from the official CentOS 7 instructions.
Install dependencies

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sudo dnf -y install gtk2-devel dbus-glib-devel autoconf213 yasm mesa-libGL-devel alsa-lib-devel libXt-devel zlib-devel openssl-devel sqlite-devel bzip2-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel
sudo dnf -y groupinstall 'Development Tools'

Install additional dependencies

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sudo dnf -y install GConf2-devel notification-daemon

Use autoconf 2.13
Albeit not the best way to get autoconf 2.13, it does work just to copy-paste this paragraph.

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autoconfver="$( autoconf --version 2>/dev/null | awk 'NR==1 {print $NF*100;} END {print "0";}' | head -n1 )"
test ${autoconfver} -ne 213 &&amp test ${autoconfver} -gt 0 && sudo mv /usr/bin/autoconf /usr/bin/autoconf-${autoconver} 2>/dev/null ; sudo ln -sf autoconf-2.13 /usr/bin/autoconf

Fetch source

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mkdir ~/pmsrc ~/pmbuild
cd ~/pmsrc
git clone https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP .

Prepare to compile
This mozconfig is identical to the mozconfig demonstrated on the official Pale Moon page for CentOS 7.

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tf=~/pmsrc/.mozconfig
touch "${tf}"
cat <<'EOFMOZCONFIG' > "${tf}"
mk_add_options AUTOCLOBBER=1
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=/home/$USER/pmbuild/
ac_add_options --enable-application=palemoon
 
ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2"
 
# Please see https://www.palemoon.org/redist.shtml for restrictions when using the official branding.
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
export MOZILLA_OFFICIAL=1
 
ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2
ac_add_options --enable-jemalloc
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --with-pthreads
 
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-eme
ac_add_options --disable-parental-controls
ac_add_options --disable-accessibility
ac_add_options --disable-webrtc
ac_add_options --disable-gamepad
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi
ac_add_options --disable-updater
 
ac_add_options --x-libraries=/usr/lib
EOFMOZCONFIG

Compile

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cd ~/pmsrc
./mach build && ./mach package

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I have a few questions.

1. I hope to create a Fedora COPR (formerly "cool other packages repos," now just "Community packages") with an rpm of Pale Moon. Do I have your permission to proceed with that plan, with the default mozconfig from the official "Compiling" page linked above?
2. Would you be interested in adapting these instructions as needed and sharing them on the official Compiling page?

[trava90]

I have a few questions.

I hope to create a Fedora COPR (formerly "cool other packages repos," now just "Community packages") with an rpm of Pale Moon. Do I have your permission to proceed with that plan, with the default mozconfig from the official "Compiling" page linked above?
Would you be interested in adapting these instructions as needed and sharing them on the official Compiling page?

Please get in touch with me via forum PM or email.