Reply To: How-to: build Pale Moon browser on antiX

[Brian MasinickModerator]

I have

CPU: dual core Intel Core i7-5500U (-MT MCP-)
speed/min/max: 2610/500/3000 MHz Kernel: 5.17.5-arch1-1 x86_64 Up: 25m
Mem: 2447.6/7860.6 MiB (31.1%) Storage: 447.13 GiB (3.2% used)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 5558 v: 01
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 086DKN v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
    v: A04 date: 08/06/2015
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i7-5500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Broadwell rev: 4 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2551 high: 2561 min/max: 500/3000 cores: 1: 2547
    2: 2542 3: 2561 4: 2554 bogomips: 19160
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx

and I happen to be running on Endeavour OS, (though I was using antiX 21 Base runit just prior to this.
I decided to try pulling Palemoon in and allowing the “yay” tool to automatically build Palemoon for me.

As of this moment, it has completed the configure, pre-export, and export phases and it is currently roughly 20 minutes into the compile phase, with
misc, libs, and tools phases to continue after the compile phase completes. At this point it’s still building various “lib” packages in the a.desc section; it did get through quite a few already; I wouldn’t be surprised if this ends up taking a couple of hours on this system too, so it’s not your “every day” task, by any means.

You did a GREAT job building this yourself. I don’t know if there was a document somewhere explaining the process, or if just the source code comments and a lot of digging (and experimentation) was necessary. However you did it, just the fact that this is a lengthy process here, EVEN WITH a super handy tool to take care of the mechanics.

I will say that the Arch Linux environment has vastly improved over the years and the Endeavour OS makes the Arch stuff that takes place behind the scenes safe and effective. It’s nice to see another distribution that does a good job with packaging, stability, and efficiency. Endeavour OS is NOT as small and nimble as antiX, but I have had success with it on a few systems in the 5-12 year age range, and being a big “fan” of choice, it’s one of the 3-4 distributions that I choose when I multi-boot on a few of my computers. Naturally, antiX is too, except on my newest system, which I haven’t managed to successfully boot an antiX image on (that was a FIRST, by the way; every other system I’ve ever tried antiX on has worked BEAUTIFULLY well).

Checking back on the Palemoon build – it’s now 37 minutes into the compilation phase of the build.

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Brian Masinick
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