please update the chromium package

[kwankiu]

since alarm repo bumped icu to 76 and gcc to 14.2 two days ago, the chromium package is broken as it remains outdated (v134 from pkgbuild but the one on repo still v131).

chromium is a very popular and widely used web browser, please update chromium to match with current deps.

[graysky]

Version 133 introduced build issues/clang distcc is no longer working so that needs to be fixed. You can downgrade chromium and icu as a temp fix until this is sorted out.

[kwankiu]

Downgrading icu would breaks core packages including pacman.
For those who upgraded the packages and found chromium not working and sees this post, i hope this helps as a temp fix:

# Chromium fix (tmp workaround)
```
# Download icu version 75.1
curl -LOmake_clickable_callback(MAGIC_URL_FULL, ' ', 'http://tardis.tiny-vps.com/aarm/repos/2025/03/01/aarch64/core/icu-75.1-2-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz', '', ' class="postlink"')
# Create temporary folder
mkdir -p icu
# Extract the package
tar -xf icu-75.1-2-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz -C icu
# Copy icu 75.1 libraries
sudo cp icu/usr/lib/libicu*75.1 /usr/lib/
# Create symlink of icu 75.1 to 75
for file in /usr/lib/libicu*.so.75.1; do
sudo ln -s "${file}" "${file/75.1/75}"
done
# Create symlink of libFLAC
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.14 /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.12
# Remove downloaded files
rm -rf icu-75.1-2-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz icu
```

# To remove the above tmp fix (remove leftover files in the future when fixed)
```
sudo rm /usr/lib/libicu*75 /usr/lib/libicu*75.1 /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.12
```

[mkurz]

Any ETA? Chromium is broken quite a while now...
Thanks!

[BillFleming]

Here is the pre-built chromium 134 from a fully updated AARCH64 system as of this morning, the full pkgbuild folder with all patches, build log (lol), and screenshot showing it running:make_clickable_callback(MAGIC_URL_FULL, ' ', 'https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LImUoKDlKEUbUW6dFcgrgXGsjBUUP3e4?usp=sharing', '', ' class="postlink"')
I didn't try to patch in any extra features, but you now have a working chrome 134 base to try to patch them in whoever wanted to add video related patches. I had to modify the ALARM makepkg as it had some issues, and switched it to not trying to build eu-strip but just using the system one. This took almost 11 hours to build on Radxa Orion O6 with those A720 cores. Maybe will go faster building in RAM next time, since it has 64GB.

[mkurz]

@BillFleming how about opening a pull request with the changes you did to the PKGBUILD so the maintainers can take a look? Here:make_clickable_callback(MAGIC_URL_FULL, ' ', 'https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/pulls', '', ' class="postlink"')

Thanks!

[Sam_Fisher]

So is this an issue on arch arm side or is it something to do with the chromium base itself? I mean if we are required to open a bug report for Chromium itself (if nobody done it already), i'd happily do that if you tell me what the issue is. Because i see no progress since the beginning of january. Arch x86 has moved on to version 135.

[mkurz]

@graysky Is there anything we can do to make chromium work again? Did the PKGBUILD from BillFleming help? (he posted it in the google drive link).
Can you give a bit more details what exactly is failing? Do you have a link to an upstream bug report or something?
Thanks!

[graysky]

Kevin is working to fix this. I do not know anything on the status. If someone has the PKGBUILD used to compile the package at the google drive link, please submit a PR against the project as suggested above.

[mkurz]

I think all the problems are fixed meanwhile. I am able to build chromium with the current PKGBUILD in make_clickable_callback(MAGIC_URL_FULL, ' ', 'https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/tree/master/extra/chromium', '', ' class="postlink"')
Instead of rust from the repos, which is on version 1.86 since a week now anyway, I was using rustup, but I guess this does not matter.

I think you or Kevin should just re-start the build - maybe it just works now?
If not please post what the error is, I am happy to take a look and help out.

BTW: Since Arch and ALARM is on Rust 1.86 now, a workaround can now be removed:make_clickable_callback(MAGIC_URL_FULL, '
', 'https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/chromium/-/merge_requests/8', '', ' class="postlink"') was merged today - I opened a PR with the same fix in alarm:make_clickable_callback(MAGIC_URL_FULL, ' ', 'https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/pull/2102', '', ' class="postlink"')