Oh, you want the latest stable Firefox, but you don't want to install Clang?
Too bad, kid.
Oh, you want the latest stable Firefox, but you don't want to install Clang?
Elijah Johnson
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Hunter Gomez
>GCC
This is why you are still a virgin.
Luis Phillips
Yea, going through compiling that was pain, but I just removed npm after it was done
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I'm unsure on how to remove clang though
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Jacob Walker
Jesus. Just get the precompiled binary from mozilla's website. How new are you?
Isaiah Rodriguez
then why bother running Gentoo in the first place
Samuel Adams
Whomst'd compile firefox on Gentoo? They all either install the firefox-bin package or get a different version from Mozilla.
Austin Scott
>2018
>not using musl/bsd/clang/gentoo
Juan Martinez
me
Xavier Parker
>I have to compile everything from source because gen2
James Morales
was ist das
Juan Robinson
Zachary Roberts
I do. It ends up being snappier than the binary version, whether you like to admit it or not. Same for Libreoffice.
Carter Allen
Gawk. I don't have the patience for that.
Asher Evans
You're free do do as you like. However, bear in mind that you can also do something else while compiling on a decent machine. I compiled the latest stable Firefox this morning while working on a couple reports, so no time lost for me.
Jason Morris
does --quiet-build really make compiling faster?
Ryder Campbell
what is a clang and why do i not want it
Zachary Wright
It's a C, C++ and Objective-C frontend for LLVM. Apparently it's required to build the new CSS engine that Firefox uses, Stylo, since its developers were retarded enough to use Clang-exclusive extensions.
Caleb Hernandez
>Oh, you want the latest stable Firefox
Lol no.
Yikes.
Robert Gutierrez
Yes, because the terminal emulator doesn't have to waste time printing text. Given how long Firefox takes to compile (especially with PGO) it could probably save a few minutes.
Chase Long
it's bloat, you only need gcc
Ethan Ward
ftp.mozilla.org
>doing things the hard way
Aiden Perry
what do you think gentoo is newpleb
Lucas Peterson
Just another linux distro 1337 toddler.
Dominic Lee
>Cannot compile firefox on nubuntu because it's a binary based distro
Landon Peterson
i think it's a bunch of scripts [kinda like the aur] to make make easier 4u
in that sense gentoo is not hard coz the hard work is done for you
Ayden Sanders
I'll be back in 6 hours
Christopher Turner
PGO has been removed from the Firefox ebuild.
Luis Bailey
> not using links on gentoo
Adam Turner
Placebo
Ryder Gray
You came in this thread just to post one word, without arguments nor benchmarks.
Enjoy your slow, bloated binaries.
David Harris
Me. It's not that bad. Mind you, I'd even compile Chromium if I wanted to use it, but I don't.
You could install the binary version and use it while Gentoo compiles your browser. Never tried it, but emerge -av firefox-bin doesn't result in portage protesting that I already have www-client/firefox installed, so it ought to work the other way around as well.
Justin Thomas
Is it broken or something? Not on Gentoo but I notice that even if I compile with PGO, about:buildconfig doesn't show any of the flags for PGO. They also added LTO a while ago for Nightly but not sure it's working either because I thought LTO was supposed to produce smaller binaries but for me I get larger?
Jordan Butler
I tried numerous times to build Firefox with PGO on Gentoo the past week, but the build always failed. I filed a bug on Bugzilla, but it was removed and remains unsolved since "pgo" it's not available in USE flags anymore for the latest stable Firefox. Maybe it was, in fact, broken.
It's a shame, since pgo really does wonders for some programs. gcc is at least 40% faster on heavy builds when compiled with PGO.