Re: What are the current available browser options for debian-ppc64?

Hello John, 

thank you very much for your quick feedback. My question
was not intended as criticism, you shouldn't misunderstand that. But
since the topic was already a year old, I was interested to see if
there were any new findings. SeaLion is an exciting thing and it works.
Otherwise, the Powermac G5 is actually no longer the most up-to-date
computer, but I love working on it. Most of the Time in terminal apps.

Keep up the good work.

Simcerely,
Jan

Am Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:39:10 +0100
schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>:

> Hi Jan,
> 
> On Mon, 2024-11-18 at 15:43 +0100, Jan Montag wrote:
> > since I just bought a Powermac G5 (powermac11.2) Dual 2 GHz, I'm
> > running Debian 12 SID on it. I also keep trying to compile or
> > install a current browser. Unfortunately this doesn't work for
> > reasons I don't understand. How has this progressed? The current
> > version of Firefox is 132.0.0.2 and still produces the memory
> > access error on my ppc64 Mac. Segmentation fault. Is there anything
> > new to report here? I can definitely try something out with
> > guidance. But I'm not a programmer or even a hacker.  
> 
> The problem is that Firefox is currently not fully compatible with
> big-endian systems like your PowerMac G5. There are supposedly
> patches which address these issues, notably on Solaris SPARC.
> 
> However, I simply did not have the time yet to go through Oracle's
> patches [1] one by one and verify which of these patches fix the
> segfault. However, the backtrace of the segfault might give us an
> idea which of the patches fixes the crash since symbols (e.g.
> function names) of the problematic code should show both in the
> backtrace as well as any of the patches from Oracle.
> 
> Please keep in mind that I'm all doing this in my free time and I'm
> not getting paid for anything, so I really have to balance the time
> I'm spending on various issues.
> 
> Adrian
> 
> > [1] https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/desktop/firefox/patches  
>