netsurf for Porteus 4.0

[Rava]

Anyone up to the task?

I tried manually creating netsurf but that failed due to GLIBC issues:
downloaded netsurf-3.9-i586-1alien.tgz but that needs libssl.so.1.1 and libcrypto.so.1.1, so also downloaded openssl-1.1.1j-i586-1.txz and inserted the libs and symlinks. Resulted in this:

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$ netsurf-gtk 
netsurf-gtk: /lib/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by netsurf-gtk)
netsurf-gtk: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by /lib/libcrypto.so.1.1)

Seems Porteus 4.0 has GLIBC_2.27

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ls -o /lib/libc.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 12 2018-04-22 20:37 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.27.so

Not found netsurf on the mirrors either, e.g. in here:
http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/port ... 0/modules/

[raja]

Get version 3.9 from this link,

https://slackware.uk/people/alien/sbrep ... 1alien.tgz

But 3.9 source itself had a bug with download gtk window not staying open during the download process. It was corrected in v3.10.

Alien's module works for browsing. But will close on clicking any download.

Compile v3.10 or 3.7 for porteus-4.0-i586. No problem with downloads.

http://download.netsurf-browser.org/net ... .10.tar.gz

[Rava]

Get version 3.9 from this link,
https://slackware.uk/people/alien/sbrep ... 1alien.tgz

as I wrote, I already did:

downloaded netsurf-3.9-i586-1alien.tgz but that needs libssl.so.1.1 and libcrypto.so.1.1, so also downloaded openssl-1.1.1j-i586-1.txz and inserted the libs and symlinks. Resulted in this:

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$ netsurf-gtk 
netsurf-gtk: /lib/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by netsurf-gtk)
netsurf-gtk: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by /lib/libcrypto.so.1.1)

I then tried compiling v3.10, all attempts failed.

1st attempt, only after 20+ minutes did netsurf.SlackBuild tell me it needs gperf.
Installed gperf.

then the source tells me the GTK_TARGET=gtk is invalid, for v.3.10 it has to be either gtk2 or gtk3.

Here my changes to netsurf.SlackBuild

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$ diff netsurf.SlackBuild netsurf.SlackBuild.sh 
47c47
< VERSION=${VERSION:-3.9}
---
> VERSION=${VERSION:-3.10}
58c58
<   GTK_TARGET=gtk
---
>   GTK_TARGET=gtk2

then it complained about perl dependency, so installed libhtml-parser-perl_3.75-1+b1_i386 and added a symlink

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ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/perl5/5.32/HTML/ /usr/lib/perl5/HTML

still it fails

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perl utils/split-messages.pl -l de -p gtk -f messages -o frontends/gtk/res/de/Messages -z resources/FatMessages
Can't locate loadable object for module HTML::Parser in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5) at /usr/lib/perl5/HTML/Entities.pm line 151.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/HTML/Entities.pm line 151.
Compilation failed in require at utils/split-messages.pl line 314.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at utils/split-messages.pl line 314.
make[1]: *** [Makefile:691: frontends/gtk/res/de/Messages] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/build/tmp-netsurf/netsurf-all-3.10/netsurf'
make: *** [Makefile:125: /tmp/build/tmp-netsurf/netsurf-all-3.10/inst-gtk2/build-stamp] Error 2
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/tmp/build/package-netsurf/usr/bin/netsurf-gtk': No such file or directory
netsurf.SlackBuild.sh FAILED at line 202

[ncmprhnsbl]

then it complained about perl dependency, so installed libhtml-parser-perl_3.75-1+b1_i386 and added a symlink

perl is pretty finicky, i've found you can't just use any old package.. best to compile it exactly for the perl version you're using..
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2 ... ml-parser/
but first:
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2 ... ml-tagset/

[dZ0TFR]

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ln -s libc-2.27.so /lib/libm.so.6

[raja]

I am posting this message in netsurf-3.9-i586 only.

/mnt/sda1/porteus-qt//modules/netsurf-3.9-i586-1alien.xzm

guest@porteus:~$ ldd /usr/bin/netsurf-gtk
linux-gate.so.1 (0xb7752000)
libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0xb76de000)
libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb76ad000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7694000)
libcurl.so.4 => /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4 (0xb760d000)
libssl.so.1 => /lib/libssl.so.1 (0xb759c000)
libcrypto.so.1 => /lib/libcrypto.so.1 (0xb73a5000)
libpng16.so.16 => /usr/lib/libpng16.so.16 (0xb736e000)
librsvg-2.so.2 => /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2 (0xb724e000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7108000)
libgio-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0 (0xb6f56000)
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0xb6f2d000)
libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb6ed5000)
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb6db5000)
libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0xb6c69000)
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb67fc000)
libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb674a000)
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0xb673c000)
libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0xb6716000)
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0xb6700000)
libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0xb66b9000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb6675000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb65c1000)
libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0xb65bc000)
libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xb65b7000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6598000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb63d4000)
libnghttp2.so.14 => /usr/lib/libnghttp2.so.14 (0xb63ad000)
libidn2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libidn2.so.0 (0xb638f000)
libssh2.so.1 => /usr/lib/libssh2.so.1 (0xb635e000)
libldap-2.4.so.2 => /usr/lib/libldap-2.4.so.2 (0xb6313000)
liblber-2.4.so.2 => /usr/lib/liblber-2.4.so.2 (0xb6304000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb62ff000)
libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0xb62e4000)
libmount.so.1 => /lib/libmount.so.1 (0xb6288000)
libblkid.so.1 => /lib/libblkid.so.1 (0xb6236000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0xb622e000)
libpixman-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 (0xb61a9000)
libEGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/libEGL.so.1 (0xb6179000)
libgbm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgbm.so.1 (0xb616b000)
libxcb-shm.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-shm.so.0 (0xb6167000)
libxcb-render.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-render.so.0 (0xb6158000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb614c000)
libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 (0xb60dd000)
libxcb-dri3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-dri3.so.0 (0xb60d8000)
libxcb-xfixes.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xfixes.so.0 (0xb60cd000)
libxcb-present.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-present.so.0 (0xb60c9000)
libxcb-sync.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb-sync.so.1 (0xb60c1000)
libxshmfence.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxshmfence.so.1 (0xb60be000)
libglapi.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglapi.so.0 (0xb60a0000)
libXdamage.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1 (0xb609d000)
libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0xb6097000)
libX11-xcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libX11-xcb.so.1 (0xb6094000)
libxcb-glx.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-glx.so.0 (0xb6078000)
libxcb-dri2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-dri2.so.0 (0xb6072000)
libXxf86vm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1 (0xb606c000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb6058000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb5f16000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb5eec000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb5ee9000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb5ee3000)
libdrm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdrm.so.2 (0xb5ed0000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0xb5ec7000)
libffi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libffi.so.6 (0xb5ec0000)
libharfbuzz.so.0 => /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0 (0xb5e09000)
libbz2.so.1 => /lib/libbz2.so.1 (0xb5df8000)
libcroco-0.6.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcroco-0.6.so.3 (0xb5dba000)
libpcre.so.1 => /lib/libpcre.so.1 (0xb5d42000)
libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0xb5bdb000)
liblzma.so.5 => /lib/liblzma.so.5 (0xb5bb1000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb5b93000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7753000)
libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0xb5b90000)
libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0xb5b7e000)
libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0xb5b72000)
libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0xb5b67000)
libXcomposite.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcomposite.so.1 (0xb5b64000)
libfribidi.so.0 => /usr/lib/libfribidi.so.0 (0xb5b49000)
libunistring.so.2 => /usr/lib/libunistring.so.2 (0xb59c8000)
libsasl2.so.3 => /usr/lib/libsasl2.so.3 (0xb59aa000)

Try v3.7 . it may compile in porteus-4.0

[Rava]

perl is pretty finicky, i've found you can't just use any old package.. best to compile it exactly for the perl version you're using..
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2 ... ml-parser/
but first:
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2 ... ml-tagset/

Indeed, calling perl finicky is so true. Often in the past creation of a module failed because of perl.
I first try this

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ln -s libc-2.27.so /lib/libm.so.6

and if it not solves the issue I try your approach, ncmprhnsbl.

In Terminator voice "I'll be back…" *jk*

[Rava]

dZ0TFR tip is of no help, the link already exists.

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root@porteus:/lib# ls -o libc-2.27.so libm.so.6
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 2037376 2018-02-06 05:11 libc-2.27.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root      12 2018-04-22 20:37 libm.so.6 -> libm-2.27.so

Tomorrow, if I find the time I try ncmprhnsbl perl tips.

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I am posting this message in netsurf-3.9-i586 only.

/mnt/sda1/porteus-qt//modules/netsurf-3.9-i586-1alien.xzm

Are you running i586 Port4.0 as OS?

[ncmprhnsbl]

something else to consider: try ./configure --help in the source and see if there's a way to 'build without docs' or similar.. , since that's what perl-html-parser is used for...

[raja]

Yes...Porteus-4.0-i586-LXQT in my old laptop..2007 make..Intel T2060 CPU (32bit) with 2GB memory. I do have v3.22 LXDE also.

[Rava]

Yes...Porteus-4.0-i586-LXQT in my old laptop..2007 make..Intel T2060 CPU (32bit) with 2GB memory. I do have v3.22 LXDE also.

and your netsurf 3.9 module works?
care to share it?

something else to consider: try ./configure --help in the source and see if there's a way to 'build without docs' or similar.. , since that's what perl-html-parser is used for...

for some reason netsurf.SlackBuild unpacks the source, aka netsurf-all-3.10.tar.gz, into /tmp and deletes all that afterwards.
I manually extract it and report back after a ./configure --help

Anyhow, since compilation is quite slow on the single core "Genuine Intel(R) CPU U1400 @ 1.20GHz" with only 1253MB RAM from which the GPU also takes its RAM since it has none of its own - I think I will install the same 3.1 kernel with 4.0 system variant to one of my multi-core x86-64 capable machines. Compiling should go more smoothly then.

Anyhow² - that I am forced using the 3.1 kernel with 4.0 system - can that cause issues, running or compiling netsurf?
Because with the 4.0 kernel all I got was this during booting - kernel loading

(see 4.0 bug reports thread for details)

[raja]

netsurf-3.9-i586

[Rava]

netsurf-3.9-i586

it runs, but it acts weird.
I allowed javascript and changed the search engine to duckduckgo.com

When doing a search, I cannot highlight and copy any text.

e.g. I searched for "netsurf nightmode"

one of the hits is wiki.ubuntuusers.de/NetSurf/ - but unlike how ddg behaves in palemoon, the link I can click goes to

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https://www.duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.ubuntuusers.de%2FNetSurf%2F

and clicking that link only results in an empty page:

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<html><head><meta name='referrer' content='origin'></head><body><script language='JavaScript'>window.parent.location.replace("https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/NetSurf/");</script><noscript><META http-equiv='refresh' content="0;URL=https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/NetSurf/"></noscript></body></html>

Why use a privacy supporting search engine like duckduckgo.com when the browser directs every link first to ddg - on no other browser I tested (palemoon, firefox, chromium) does that happen.

Any ideas why that is?

When doing the same search for "netsurf nightmode" in palemoon using duckduckgo.com all links go directly to their target, as it should be.

[raja]

This is a very basic Browser, good enough for day today web experience in forums,new sites who use HTML and no java scripts.

Don't compare with chrome based browsers.

Bing,Duck Back etc just can not beat google for accuracy in bringing out the exact information any user searches for!

Netsurf's javascript ability is just baby steps.

[Rava]

Netsurf's javascript ability is just baby steps.

what do you mean by that?
that its incomplete js?