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Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org>
Subject:
Re: [update] www/librewolf 153.0-{1,3} (153.0-3 wip)
To:
yaydn@protonmail.com, landry@openbsd.org, "ports@openbsd.org" <ports@openbsd.org>
Date:
Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:05:47 +0100

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Honestly, I've already mostly dealt with my things. Got some other 
things. I could probably come back like, today. But you seem to know 
what you're doing. I'll leave you in charge for a while :)


Am 23.07.26 um 19:52 schrieb yaydn@protonmail.com:
> På torsdag 23. juli 2026 kl. 13:14, skrev Leah Rowe
> <info@minifree.org>:
>
>> Thank you for taking charge of this for me.
>>
>> I'll be back in October again to help again with maintaining this port.
>>
>> I'll probably be back earlier than October, but I say October for
>> safety. I got a few things I'm dealing with that demand my undivided
>> attention for the next few months.
>
> I am already compiling it on my own, so learning the ropes is alright.
> No worries. Prior notice is appreciated. 👍
>
> May you stay healthy too!
>
>
> På torsdag 23. juli 2026 kl. 13:47, skrev landry@openbsd.org
> <landry@openbsd.org>:
>
>> Le Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 12:17:00PM +0100, Leah Rowe a écrit :
>>> see other reply:
>>>
>>> check the firefox port. i do changes pretty conservatively, only adapting
>>> firefox port changes, plus adaptations for librewolf-specific changes e.g.
>>> policy changes, mozconfig (referencing upstream).
>>>
>>> the firefox port does that CPU thread check and caps the limits based on the
>>> architecture it's being built on. openbsd doesn't cross compile, it always
>>> compiles on each host, and some of those architectures require limiting the
>>> number of threads due to memory usage, because the firefox port uses a lot
>>> of memory when compiling it.
>> just to correct things here:
>>
>> - that's not 'the port uses a lot of memory when compiling it' (albeit
>>    that's also true) nor related to crosscompile - its 'lld takes gobs of
>> resources when linking libxul.so'
>> - there was an ugly 'NCPU !!= sysctl -n hw.ncpuonline' construct to get
>>    the amount of cores available. ugly because its evaluated/executed
>> each time the makefile is read.
>> - depending on the value, it used it or capped it to 5
>> - lld upstream defaults to use all available cores, which was producing
>>    bad resource usage with many cores (eg >= 16) - cf
>> https://marc.info/?t=173106489200001&r=1&w=2
>> - our lld gained a local modification that caps it to 4. cf
>>    https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/e41c3d4bccf9b5cf584f1453e0a028fd066cd926
>> - i initially thought the capping happened only *IFF* -Wl,--threads was
>>    used, but rereading the above commit, it doesnt seem to be the case.
>> I'll recheck in my next build.
>> - so in the end i think the -Wl,--threads bit should be dropped from
>>    LDFLAGS and come back to --ld-path=${WRKDIR}/bin/ld
>>
>> hope it helps clarifying things..
>>
>> i'll commit the final diff for lw 153.0-3 when its been properly tested.
>>
>> Landry
>>
>
> I think I follow. I'll keep an eye on those possible changes. Thanks
> for the explanation. I was wondering what the thread hack was about.
>
> Here is near same patch. There were no check diff's from 153.0-1 to 153.0-3.
>
> Been using it for a few minutes on sway. Double downloaded the tar, all
> good.
>
> No regressions that I can find. Happy hacking everyone! May you all stay
> cool.
>
> Index: Makefile
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/ports/www/librewolf/Makefile,v
> diff -u -p -u -p -r1.5 Makefile
> --- Makefile	16 Jul 2026 15:19:32 -0000	1.5
> +++ Makefile	23 Jul 2026 18:30:31 -0000
> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ ONLY_FOR_ARCHS =	amd64 aarch64 riscv64
>   
>   # If upstream adds revision number -x, it will become plx in OpenBSD, e.g.
>   # librewolf-149.0.2-2 (upstream) becomes librewolf-149.0.2pl2 (patch level 2)
> -MOZILLA_DIST_VERSION =	152.0.6-1
> +MOZILLA_DIST_VERSION =	153.0-3
>   MOZILLA_VERSION =	${MOZILLA_DIST_VERSION:C/-([0-9]+)$/pl\1/}
>   
>   MOZILLA_PROJECT =	librewolf
> @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ MOZILLA_CODENAME =	browser
>   MAINTAINER =		Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
>   
>   HOMEPAGE =	https://librewolf.net/
> -SO_VERSION =	1.0
> +SO_VERSION =	2.0
>   # Bump minor ver if shlibs deleted in components dir to avoid pkg_add -r issues
>   MOZILLA_LIBS =	mozavcodec mozavutil mozgtk mozinference mozwayland xul \
>   		clearkey gkcodecs lgpllibs mozsqlite3
> @@ -43,12 +43,11 @@ MODPY_RUNDEP =	No
>   
>   COMPILER =	ports-clang
>   MODCLANG_VERSION =	22
> -USE_LLD =	ports
>   
>   # 63 requires node because why not #1483595
>   BUILD_DEPENDS +=	lang/node
>   # 63 requires cbindgen #1478813
> -BUILD_DEPENDS +=	devel/cbindgen>=0.23.0
> +BUILD_DEPENDS +=	devel/cbindgen>=0.29.4
>   # wasi
>   BUILD_DEPENDS +=	lang/wasi-sdk/compiler-rt>=22.1.5p1 \
>   			lang/wasi-sdk/libcxx>=21.1.5p1 \
> @@ -60,7 +59,7 @@ BUILD_DEPENDS +=	devel/py-setuptools
>   RUN_DEPENDS =		graphics/ffmpeg
>   
>   # uses pledge()
> -WANTLIB += Xrandr Xtst
> +WANTLIB += Xrandr Xtst freebl3
>   
>   CONFIGURE_STYLE =	simple
>   CONFIGURE_SCRIPT =	${MODPY_BIN} ${WRKSRC}/configure.py
> @@ -71,13 +70,7 @@ CONFIGURE_ENV +=	CPPFLAGS="-fno-ret-prot
>   .else
>   CONFIGURE_ENV +=	CPPFLAGS=-Wno-backend-plugin
>   .endif
> -NCPU !!=		sysctl -n hw.ncpuonline
> -.if ${NCPU} > 4
> -CONFIGURE_ENV +=	LDFLAGS="-Wl,--threads=5 --ld-path=${WRKDIR}/bin/ld"
> -.else
> -CONFIGURE_ENV +=	LDFLAGS="-Wl,--threads=${MAKE_JOBS} \
> -			--ld-path=${WRKDIR}/bin/ld"
> -.endif
> +CONFIGURE_ENV +=	LDFLAGS="-Wl,--threads=4 --ld-path=${WRKDIR}/bin/ld"
>   # 2026497
>   CONFIGURE_ENV +=       MACH_BUILD_PYTHON_NATIVE_PACKAGE_SOURCE=none
>   
> Index: distinfo
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/ports/www/librewolf/distinfo,v
> diff -u -p -u -p -r1.5 distinfo
> --- distinfo	16 Jul 2026 15:19:32 -0000	1.5
> +++ distinfo	23 Jul 2026 18:30:31 -0000
> @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
> -SHA256 (librewolf/librewolf-152.0.6-1.source.tar.gz) = BBkwy3HutWW3Nv+ObQRDgTFGM7LDwrGatnS/Phn3+HA=
> -SIZE (librewolf/librewolf-152.0.6-1.source.tar.gz) = 1156714022
> +SHA256 (librewolf/librewolf-153.0-3.source.tar.gz) = SKziSh1q9sZeOmY0AuewrxVP9yBqt2++XAgxGnReOeM=
> +SIZE (librewolf/librewolf-153.0-3.source.tar.gz) = 1161719988
> Index: patches/patch-lw_policies_json
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/ports/www/librewolf/patches/patch-lw_policies_json,v
> diff -u -p -u -p -r1.3 patch-lw_policies_json
> --- patches/patch-lw_policies_json	20 Jun 2026 14:30:20 -0000	1.3
> +++ patches/patch-lw_policies_json	23 Jul 2026 18:30:31 -0000
> @@ -3,20 +3,14 @@ perhaps send these to librewolf upstream
>   Index: lw/policies.json
>   --- lw/policies.json.orig
>   +++ lw/policies.json
> -@@ -13,6 +13,16 @@
> +@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@
>            "DisableSetDesktopBackground": false,
> -         "DisableDeveloperTools": false,
> -         "NoDefaultBookmarks": true,
> -+        "DontCheckDefaultBrowser": true,
> +         "DisableTelemetry": true,
> +         "DontCheckDefaultBrowser": true,
>   +        "GoToIntranetSiteForSingleWordEntryInAddressBar": true,
> -+        "FirefoxHome": {
> -+        "SponsoredStories": false,
> -+            "SponsoredTopSites": false,
> -+            "Stories": false
> -+        },
>   +        "GenerativeAI": {
>   +            "Enabled": false
>   +        },
> -         "DefaultSerialGuardSetting": 3,
> -         "WebsiteFilter": {
> -             "Block": [
> +         "EncryptedMediaExtensions": {
> +             "Enabled": false
> +         },
> Index: patches/patch-toolkit_components_downloads_DownloadIntegration_sys_mjs
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/ports/www/librewolf/patches/patch-toolkit_components_downloads_DownloadIntegration_sys_mjs,v
> diff -u -p -u -p -r1.1.1.1 patch-toolkit_components_downloads_DownloadIntegration_sys_mjs
> --- patches/patch-toolkit_components_downloads_DownloadIntegration_sys_mjs	8 Jun 2026 16:14:42 -0000	1.1.1.1
> +++ patches/patch-toolkit_components_downloads_DownloadIntegration_sys_mjs	23 Jul 2026 18:30:31 -0000
> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ was previously in patch-toolkit_componen
>   Index: toolkit/components/downloads/DownloadIntegration.sys.mjs
>   --- toolkit/components/downloads/DownloadIntegration.sys.mjs.orig
>   +++ toolkit/components/downloads/DownloadIntegration.sys.mjs
> -@@ -1110,7 +1110,7 @@ export var DownloadIntegration = {
> +@@ -1117,7 +1117,7 @@ export var DownloadIntegration = {
>        // displayed in the user interface.
>        let directoryPath = PathUtils.join(
>          this._getDirectory(aName),

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