It’s been ‘fun’ compiling the newest Cheomium 143 sources… as usual when Google updates the major version number.
Again, it is momentarily not possible to compile the Chromium sources using Slackware’s own compilers. I get a Rust error “error: extern blocks must be unsafe” in compiling ‘liballoc_error_handler_impl_ffi.rlib‘. which I have been unable to fix – my knowledge of the Rust programming language is non-existent.
Which is why I could only upload the 64bit packages for chromium and chromium-ungoogled; Google only offers a 64bit version of the heavily patched clang and rust compilers they use internally to compile Chrome. A 32bit package will only become available after I found a fix for the Rust error.
Also, I had to apply some hacks in order to deal with the need for a newer Python than the 3.9 which is part of Slackware 15.0. I already have a successful patch for another part of the code where Python 3.9 was too old (the pipe union operator ‘|’ was added in Python 3.10) but due to time constraints I could not examine the new code and instead added a Python 3.12 binary in parallel.
This means you currently cannot simply run the SlackBuild on Slackware 15.0; you have to add a Python 3.12 package (I compiled a package from the sources I took from from Slackware-current) and point the ‘/usr/bin/python‘ symlink to python3.12. I hope to have fixed that requirement in the next batch of chromium packages.
Thanks for the chromium-ungoogled 143.0.7499.192 update!
I hope you have a good personal 2026.
Many people around me just seem to ignore everything that’s happening in the world.
That might be necessary to be able to continue your life, but I think migrating to New Zealand might not be a bad idea.
Considering my age, migrating to another part of the world is probably creating challenges of a different kind…
But indeed, Western civilization runs the risk of collapsing real fast and catastrophically.
I have a camper van parked in the driveway, fully diesel fueled, with dual propane tanks for heating & cooking, 100 liter water, and a fridge/freezer. It’s equipped with solar panels, a 220V inverter and LiFePo batteries, and is dual-SIM internet-connected.
We’ll be on the road in one hour if shit hits the fan. We’ll camp in the van when a foreign actor hits our country’s critical infrastructure and we lose power and water.
Other than that, I keep a fairly positive mindset 🙂