Firefox 81 introduced a new print dialog. Under NixOS, this dialog
offers only "Save as PDF" as the destination. To print to a real
printer, one has to click "Print using the system dialog" and print
from there. This is not only one unnecessary extra click, but the
system dialog also does not offer preview.
With this commit, Firefox starts offering real printers in its
printing dialog, removing the above mentioned deficiencies.
CUPS is needed because Firefox uses dlopen() to load libcups.so.2 at
runtime. See
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/b52cf6bbe214bd9d93ed9333d0403f7d556ad7c8/widget/nsCUPSShim.cpp#28
In order to make the man pages accessible, the previous code used
nix-support/propagated-user-env-packages. However this file is also used to set
the PATH when the application is executed with `nix run`, thus including the
wrapped and the wrappee in the environment.
Having the wrappee enumerated first in the environment caused `firefox` to
default to the wrappee, and as such not being able to find a proper GTK. This
was a source of failures while opening a file-picker.
This change removes the code to propagate the wrappe in the environment, as the
man pages are already linked in the wrapper output.
Since 37194a325d llvmPackages*.bintools is a bintools-wrapper. Thus it
only contains a wrapper for `as` and `ld`. This change makes sense, but
causes regressions like this one. Since the buildStdenv uses the llvm
bintool set including lld as a linker we can use the
cc.bintools.bintools derivation to get all the tools we need.
Technically we wouldn't need to set absolute paths as all tools are also
added to PATH, but it doesn't hurt either.
This will begin the process of breaking up the `useLLVM` monolith. That
is good in general, but I hope will be good for NetBSD and Darwin in
particular.
Co-authored-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Also begin to start work on cross compilation, though that will have to
be finished later.
The patches are based on the first version of
https://reviews.llvm.org/D99484. It's very annoying to do the
back-porting but the review has uncovered nothing super major so I'm
fine sticking with what I've got.
Beyond making the outputs work, I also strove to re-sync the packages,
as they have been drifting pointlessly apart for some time.
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Other misc notes, highly incomplete
- lvm-config-native and llvm-config are put in `dev` because they are
tools just for build time.
- Clang no longer has an lld dep. That was introduced in
db29857eb3, but if clang needs help
finding lld when it is used we should just pass it flags / put in the
resource dir. Providing it at build time increases critical path
length for no good reason.
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A note on `nativeCC`:
`stdenv` takes tools from the previous stage, so:
1. `pkgsBuildBuild`: `(?1, x, x)`
2. `pkgsBuildBuild.stdenv.cc`: `(?0, ?1, x)`
while:
1. `pkgsBuildBuild`: `(?1, x, x)`
2. `pkgsBuildBuild.targetPackages`: `(x, x, ?2)`
3. `pkgsBuildBuild.targetPackages.stdenv.cc`: `(?1, x, x)`
082ed38 introduced it to fix the profile-per-install policy of FF 67. But since
FF 69 (or 68?), there is `MOZ_LEGACY_PROFILES`, which we use since 87e2618.
There is no reason for the `SNAP_NAME=firefox` workaround anymore.
Additionally, the combination of `SNAP_NAME=firefox` with
a large ~/.nix-profile/share in `XDG_DATA_DIRS` triggered
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1569625 for me, so this really
fixes a bug in my configuration.
The only downside of this approach is that we lose support for running FF 67
(and possibly 68).
When firefox is executed by programs that also make changes to
`LD_LIBRARY_PATH`, the paths can conflict causing firefox to look for
shared libraries in the wrong location. This is because the wrapper
script around firefox *appends* library paths to `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`
instead of prepending them, causing library paths that are already in
the environment to take precedence over the library paths that firefox
depends on.
As an example, Discord and firefox both depend on different versions of
libnss. When Discord launches firefox, which happens when clicking on
hyperlinks, the path in `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` to libnss set by Discord takes
precedence over then one set by the firefox wrapper script causing
firefox to load a different version of libnss than the one it was built
against. This causes a fatal error in firefox which prevents it from
starting.
This commit fixes this issue by switching the firefox wrapper script to
*prepend* its library paths to `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
Fixes#118432
/cc original PR #114152. ESR doesn't need to go through staging.
I briefly ran it on X11 x86_64 NixOS and checked build on aarch64.
(for other's testing see the PR linked above)
Enable LTO support on Linux by default again.
Add patch to fix dependentlibs.list generation under LTO. This is
necessary for fixing firefox-wayland crashing when built with LTO.
Add makeFlags which set ar, ranlib, and nm to be llvm-ar, llvm-ranlib
and llvm-nm when building with llvm-based LTO. (bmo#1480005)
This was required to solve the XPCOMGlueLoad error when building with
LTO. However, it turns out libxul.so is supposed to have some libraries
that are reported as not found by ldd. Setting the RPATH worked around
the error as it forced dependency resolution but failed to fix the real
issue of broken generation of dependentlibs.list.
The libraries that are reported as not found by ldd are supposed to be
dlopened through the logic found in nsXPCOMGlue.cpp. However since the
generation of dependentlibs.list is broken under LTO this did not
happen. Instead of pulling libwayland-client.so from the GTK libraries
it found the stub library first (libmozwayland.so). The stub library
causes (as it should) wl_display_connect to always return NULL which is
the cause of the segmentation fault and LTO breaking wayland support.
Remove the hardcoded path used for the XPCOMGlueLoad error workaround
in NIX_LDFLAGS. libunwind is still unfortunately needed. Once the issue
of the generation of dependentlibs.list being borked is fixed it should
remedy the wayland crash issue on LTO.
Firefox has a number of optional dependencies that get dlopened.
Instead of using patchelf to set the RPATH use LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
The motivation for this is we already set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the
wrapper on Linux.
It only affected FF80 so place an upper bound restriction. See
bmo#1661096 for details.
This fixes substituteStream() warnings about missing patterns which
appeared in the logs.
It was added for nspr and nss back in the 55.0.3 to 56.0 upgrade. It
also served as a workaround for an undeclared gio-unix-2.0 dependency.
Sometime afterwards nspr was removed, leaving just the two. Since then,
upstream has added a declaration for gio-unix-2.0 (in FF62). As for the
nss include it seemingly has no purpose since current firefox builds
with it removed.
For in NixOS it is beneficial if both plasma5 and pam use the same Qt5
version. Because the plasma5 desktop may use a different version as the
default Qt5 version, we introduce plasma5Packages.
After the fedora patches for screen sharing using pipewire got updated
for Firefox 83 (pipewire was inlined there), the nixpkgs buildInput
pipewire got stripped from the resulting firefox binary and so firefox
was unable to actually get the shared stream from the running pipewire
service.
Adding pipewire to the firefox binary with `patchelf --add-needed`
makes it atually get the stream from the service.
Fixes: #106812
This is required for certain URIs that require launching external
programs (e.g. mailto:, magnet:, or irc:) or setting the default browser
via xdg-settings.
Resolve#92751.
Comparable to #96922.
After the recent wrapper and plugin purge outbreak where as the only
active listed maintainer of the package I didn't even get a chance to
comment (e.g. via comment or review request) I do not want to continue
maintaining this package anymore.
This patch fixes compilation on aarch64 that broke somewhere between the
upgrade to the lateste rustc and the firefox 82 to 83 upgrade.
The patch has been submitted upstream and can probably be removed on the
next version bump.
