Palemoon for xbps with musl binpkg

[milch]

I had some issues finding sources on getting Palemoon to run on Voidlinux, but finally found something.
The template and binpkg at hazen2215/palemoon-void (github) worked but was outdated.
The template might work for glibc aswell, but is only tested for musl.

Version 33.8.0-r2
; using gtk3, pulseaudio
; disabled npapi, atk, official branding
Template for xbps-src • palemoon-template.tar.xz (workupload)
Unbranded xbps binpkg for x86_64 musl • palemoon-33.8.0_1.x86_64-musl.xbps (workupload)

Note: it takes quite long to build so I recommed using distcc if you have spare devices to speed up the process
Tested on x86_64 musl VoidLinux using wlroots and xorg-xwayland

[milch]

Release 33.9.0.1 ( gtk+3 ; sndio ; unbranded )
binpkg: palemoon-33.9.0.1_1.x86_64-musl.xbps
template: palemoon-33.9.0.1-xbps-src.tar.bz2

[andyprough]

Wow that is awesome. Void musl probably doesn't have many browsers to choose from other than Void's own Firefox.

[ron_1]

So the official Pale Moon from the tarball on the Downloads page won't run on Void Linux?

[andyprough]

So the official Pale Moon from the tarball on the Downloads page won't run on Void Linux?

It runs on Void with glibc just fine. Runs extremely well in fact.

But this is for Void with musl libc, which is a horse of a different color.

[jobbautista9]

Wait Pale Moon can now work with musl as libc? That's amazing!

[Moonchild]

Wait Pale Moon can now work with musl as libc? That's amazing!

Not out of the box - it needs a few code patches, but it's close.

[milch]

Wow that is awesome. Void musl probably doesn't have many browsers to choose from other than Void's own Firefox.

Yea it seems the official repository maintainers have had bad experiences with independent browser (forks), so users have to build those themselves.
Thankfully the xbps-src environment makes it easy enough and leaves no litter behind either.

[Moonchild]

For convenience, I've adopted one of the patches into our source tree (the #include <limits> one) since it would not affect other targets.

[milch]

Release 33.9.0.1 aarch64/arm64 ( gtk+3 ; sndio ; unbranded )
binpkg: palemoon-33.9.0.1_1.aarch64-musl.xbps

[milch]

For convenience, I've adopted one of the patches into our source tree (the #include <limits> one) since it would not affect other targets.

Thanks for telling me, I'll remove that one from my next release then

[milch]

For convenience, I've adopted one of the patches into our source tree (the #include <limits> one) since it would not affect other targets.

Just wanted to let you know version 34.0.1 compiles on musl without needing any patches.

[andyprough]

Just wanted to let you know version 34.0.1 compiles on musl without needing any patches.

That's awesome! You and @MC have really added a full new native browser for Void musl, which has very few good options otherwise.

[milch]

Release 34.0.1 ( gtk+3 ; sndio ; unbranded ; sse4.1 )
binpkg: palemoon-34.0.1_1.x86_64-musl.xbps
template: palemoon-34.0.1-xbps-src.tar.bz2

Note: The binpkg has been built using toybox and clang19 instead of coreutils and gcc.
To build it on standard xbps-src please add the following to the hostmakedepends and remove u-config from it

Code: Select all

hostmakedepends="... pkg-config tar which"

All patches have been removed.