Pale Moon on Raspberry Pi.

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Pale Moon on Raspberry Pi.

Unread post by Gerald2 » 2024-03-11, 17:25

Hi all,

Currently running 29.4.6 which I built on the Pi more than a year ago. There are a couple of irritating issues with this build, and I haven't found a binary package for the Pi so I tried to build the latest source from Github to see if that's any better.

I followed the directions at

https://developer.palemoon.org/build/linux/

and apart from a failure to build something for NVIDIA (which I ignored) during the installation of the prerquisites, all went more or less OK until about two hours into './mach build' when it quit the build with a load of undefined references to mozilla::dom::<all sorts of different things such as ContainerBoxObjectBinding::Wrap>, most of which scrolled off the screen before I could see them. Next time, I'll pipe the output to a file.

This is Debian Bullseye, gcc V10. The hardware is a Pi 4B with 8G RAM, and nothing else of any size was running during the build - not even X.

Have I missed something?
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Re: Pale Moon on Raspberry Pi.

Unread post by Moonchild » 2024-03-11, 19:18

Please capture a build log and post it. We can't "guess" what your errors are from a mention of "it was something mentioning these sorts of functions"...

It's possible there's some unified building dependency issues which can crop up depending on how individual files are being bundled (the infamous dependency rot or "deprot" for short) but we can't tell unless we see the build log output starting with the actual build error. if the build log is large just zip it and attach.
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Re: Pale Moon on Raspberry Pi.

Unread post by andyprough » 2024-03-11, 22:16

Gerald2 wrote: ↑
2024-03-11, 17:25
 This is Debian Bullseye
Have you tried Steve Pussers' ARM packages for Debian 11? I don't know which ARM architecture your Raspberry Pi would use, but he's got a couple of different current ARM builds of Pale Moon: https://download.opensuse.org/repositor ... venpusser/
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Re: Pale Moon on Raspberry Pi.

Unread post by Gerald2 » 2024-03-15, 17:07

Thanks for the replies, and especially thank you Moonchild as I gather you're not well at the moment. All my best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Yes I tried a build from Mr. Pusser but ran into dependency hell (things like libc6...) but I prefer to build from source in any case, so I may have a fighting chance of fixing things.

The output of a failed './mach build' is attached.
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