Re: About browsers (again) [was Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller]
Ken Cunningham <[email protected]>
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> On Sep 28, 2024, at 6:31 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2024-09-28 at 06:14 -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote: >> But as detailed in the thread last November, I ran into trouble getting a build >> system working in debian PPC for the current Firefox code base. I asked for >> help, but nothing was suggested. So that is still in a folder on my dual G5. > > Just install and set up sbuild, then download the firefox source and build > it using sbuild. > > If you want to build the upstream sources, you can just create a schroot, > install the build dependencies and build Firefox according to the upstream > build instructions. > > I don't think it's actually really any difficult. Indeed, thank goodness it is so trivially easy to build things on debian. I have build -- many things now. For one recent impressive one, the 64 bit PPC version Lazarus has a longstanding crashing error, but the 32 bit version, built from source and installed on 64 bit PPC, works just fine. > >> Adrian apparently does have a working build system for that code base, >> and perhaps we might get something going. > > I'm just using the standard tools available in Debian. It's not really rocket science. > > I also don't remember seeing any questions regarding that here, but my memory might > fail me here. I can't expect you to remember everything that goes on here on this list, certainly. And I didn't bring it up again, so it likely drifted past like a cloud... The issue was noted here (long time ago now): https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2023/11/msg00055.html My new best friend, ChatGPT, tells me it was likely a permissions problem, and although I am pretty sure I would have tried a trivial fix like that, I'll give it another go when the machine warms up and see. Best, Ken > > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer > `. `' Physicist > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913