Firefox 60.0.1esr compiled for Easy Pyro

Major changes, firefox now needs 'rust' to compile, and requires gtk3.

Firstly, rust. Thus is a systems programming language, that the Mozilla team are helping to develop. Installation instructions are given at Linux From Scratch:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/8.2/general/rust.html
Noticed afterward, more up-to-date instructions:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/general/rust.html

Which I followed, installing rust 1.26.0:

https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/other-installers.html#source
Specifically:
https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rustc-1.26.0-src.tar.gz

Then, followed the LFS guidelines to compiled firefox:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/xsoft/firefox.html

Note, there is a new script for compiling firefox:

# ./mach build --verbose
# ./mach install --verbose

Afterward, I started to create PETs for rust and firefox, then realised the rust installation is about 1.1GB (expanded). Hmmm.

It looks like "the kitchen sink included" installation of rust. I wondered how much of that is needed to compile firefox. I then found another installation method, see here:

https://rustup.rs/

...it installs to /root/.rustup and /root/.cargo/bin, and after executing "export PATH="/root/.cargo/bin:${PATH}", you are good to go. It is 795MB, still very big.

Note, the first method compiled everything, took ages, the second method just downloaded pre-compiled binaries.

I created the rust PET from the first method (370.1MB):
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/packages/pet/pet_packages-pyro/rustc-1.26.0-pyro64.pet

Here is firefox (56.4MB):
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/packages/pet/pet_packages-pyro/firefox-60.0.1-pyro64.pet

...all deps are already in Easy Pyro. Rust is only needed for compiling. For developers, here is my 'mozconfig' file:

#mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS='-j1'
ac_add_options --enable-application=browser
ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2"
ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell
ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
ac_add_options --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
ac_add_options --disable-dbus
ac_add_options --disable-accessibility
ac_add_options --with-system-bz2
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --disable-parental-controls
ac_add_options --disable-system-sqlite
ac_add_options --disable-system-cairo
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
ac_add_options --without-system-png
ac_add_options --with-system-zlib
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi
#ac_add_options --disable-gconf
ac_add_options --without-system-nspr
ac_add_options --without-system-nss
#ac_add_options --enable-ldap
ac_add_options --without-system-icu
ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio
ac_add_options --enable-alsa
ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
ac_add_options --with-pthreads
ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --without-system-libevent
ac_add_options --disable-stylo
#ac_add_options --with-system-graphite2
#ac_add_options --with-system-harfbuzz
ac_add_options --disable-nfc
ac_add_options --enable-ffmpeg

...some of the system libraries I had to disable, as they are too old. Some disabled for other reasons.

EDIT 29 May 2018:
I have converted 'rustc' into an SFS file. Running Easy, click the "sfsget" icon at top of screen, and the available SFS files will be offered to download. It is 333MB.

That's the easy way. The manual way is to download it directly, then place it in the /mnt/wkg/repository/easy-0.9.3 folder, then run Easy Boot Manager in the Filesystem menu. Here it is:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/packages/sfs/pyro/rustc-1.26.0-pyro64_0.9.3.sfs

Tags: easy