Compiled on X8DTU with 2 physical Intel Xeon E5530 CPU (8C16T)

Compile Flags:
# 'dynamic_cast' not permitted with '-fno-rtti'
CFLAGS='-mtune=generic -Os -pipe -flto -fno-exceptions -fuse-linker-plugin'
CXXFLAGS='-mtune=generic -Os -pipe -flto -fno-exceptions -fuse-linker-plugin'
LDFLAGS='-Wl,-O1'
export CFLAGS CXXFLAGS LDFLAGS

Dependencies:
bash                # required for bootstrap
compiletc           # required for bootstrap
git                 # required for bootstrap
node                # required for bootstrap
libsecret-dev       # required for bootstrap
libX11-dev          # required for bootstrap
libxkbfile-dev      # required for bootstrap
nss                 # required for build
gdk-pixbuf2         # required for build
libXext             # required for build
libXrender          # required for build
libXfixes           # required for build
libXdamage          # required for build
cairo               # required for build
pango               # required for build
atk                 # required for build
dbus                # required for build
libXcomposite       # required for build
libXcursor          # required for build
libXi               # required for build
libXrandr           # required for build
at-spi2-core        # required for build
at-spi2-atk         # required for build
gtk3                # required for build
libXtst             # required for build
libXss              # required for build
libasound           # required for build
libcups             # required for build
hicolor-icon-theme  # required for build
patchelf            # required for binaries

# not required, the package comes with its copies
libEGL-dev          # these two does nothing
libGLESv2-dev       # even if loaded

tar -zxf v1.55.0.tar.gz

cd atom-1.55.0

# temporary fix
sudo ln -s /lib /lib64

# dataDirs
sed -i 's:/usr/share:/usr/local/share:' ./script/lib/install-application.js

# just in case
./script/clean

# bootstrap, if failed, load missing deps and restart
time ./script/bootstrap [ 15 min ]

# before install, set a time mark
touch /tmp/TimeMark

# compile and install (in a go, sudo required)
sudo time ./script/build --no-bootstrap --install [ 12 min ]

# After installed

find /usr -newer /tmp/TimeMark -not -type d > /tmp/atom.lst

# make sure nothing else were included
grep -v '/usr/local' /tmp/atom.lst

# packup for later use
tar -T /tmp/atom.lst -zcf atom-raw.tar.gz

# for future reference, the size is huge
du -h atom-raw.tar.gz [ 184.9M ]

# unpack the archive
mkdir work && cd work && tar -zxf ../atom-raw.tar.gz

# copy the missing library, that sometimes got left behind, from source code directory
cp /tmp/atom-1.55.0/script/node_modules/electron-mksnapshot/bin/libffmpeg.so ./usr/local/share/atom/

# patchelf, replace interpreter with the realpath
grep -lr '/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2' | xargs patchelf --set-interpreter '/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2'

# strip binaries
find -executable -not -type d -exec file {} \; | grep ELF | cut -d : -f 1 | xargs strip --strip-unneeded

# shared objects, we can use the system ones
mkdir -p /tmp/atom-share/usr/local/share/atom/
mv ./usr/local/share/atom/*.so /tmp/atom-share/usr/local/share/atom/
mv ./usr/local/share/atom/swiftshader /tmp/atom-share/usr/local/share/atom/

# remove python bytecode
find -name '*.pyc' -exec rm -f {} \;

# remove useless MicroSoft scripts
find -name '*.cmd' -exec rm -f {} \;

# remove icon-theme.cache
rm -f ./usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache

# locale
mkdir -p /tmp/atom-loc/usr/local/share/atom/
mv ./usr/local/share/atom/locales/ /tmp/atom-loc/usr/local/share/atom/
mkdir -p /tmp/atom-loc/usr/local/share/atom/resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/dugite/git/share/
mv usr/local/share/atom/resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/dugite/git/share/locale/ /tmp/atom-loc/usr/local/share/atom/resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/dugite/git/share/

# apm: Atom Package Manager
mkdir -p /tmp/atom-apm/usr/local/bin/
mv ./usr/local/bin/apm /tmp/atom-apm/usr/local/bin/
mkdir -p /tmp/atom-apm/usr/local/share/atom/resources/app/
mv ./usr/local/share/atom/resources/app/apm /tmp/atom-apm/usr/local/share/atom/resources/app/

# desktop: edit manually
vi ./usr/local/share/applications/atom.desktop
=> X-FullPathIcon=/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/atom.png

# perl
grep -rIl '\/usr\/bin\/perl' | xargs sed -i 's:/usr/bin/perl:/usr/local/bin/perl:g'

# is bash droppable ? ( just some checks )
find -type f -exec file {} \; | grep 'Bourne-Again shell script' > /tmp/bash.lst
mkdir /tmp/bash-check
cp $(cut -d : -f 1 /tmp/bash.lst) /tmp/bash-check
for B in *; do busybox sh -n $B && echo $B good || echo $B bad; done

# edit the main script
./usr/local/bin/atom
./usr/local/share/atom/resources/app/atom.sh
  #!/bin/bash --> #!/bin/sh

# patchelf: (optional) rename libraries, should be backward compatible
patchelf --replace-needed libssl.so.1.0.0 libssl.so.1.1 \
./usr/local/share/atom/resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/dugite/git/libexec/git-core/git-imap-send
patchelf --replace-needed libcrypto.so.1.0.0 libcrypto.so.1.1 \
./usr/local/share/atom/resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/dugite/git/libexec/git-core/git-imap-send

# clear empty directories (if any)
find -depth -exec rmdir {} \; 2> /dev/null

# tce.installed
mkdir -m 775 ./usr/local/tce.installed
vi ./usr/local/tce.installed/atom
=> gtk-update-icon-cache -q -f -t /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor
=> test -d /etc/fonts -o -L /etc/fonts || ln -s /tmp/tcloop/fontconfig/usr/local/etc/fonts /etc/fonts