Re: Chromium security updates

[Richmond <richmond@criptext.com>]

Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 12:57 PM Richmond <richmond@criptext.com>
> wrote:
>
>     Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> writes:
>    
>     > Now trying:
>     >
>     > gn gen out/Default "--args=is_debug=false symbol_level=0
>     > blink_symbol_level=0 v8_symbol_level=0 is_official_build=true
>     > chrome_pgo_phase = 0"
>     >
>    
>     I've built this version and it is working well.
>    
>     As the problem with chromium is caused by the debian build tools,
>     perhaps it can be provided from the stable version build as an
>     appimage?
>    
>     Or perhaps it can be built without the build tools and just
>     provided for
>     selected architecture?
>
>
> Thanks for your work.
> Can you explain briefly the meaning of these 2 build parameters?: 

> v8_symbol_level

This is to remove debugging symbols (presumably from the V8 javascript
code) which I hoped would speed things up.

chrome_pgo_phase

This I set to zero to prevent an error caused by setting
"is_official_build=true"