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

Hi Adrian,

I am with you,
I tried to apply the patches provided by solaris, I tried to compile but 
on the Powermac itself it lasts three days to compile with the end of 
did'nt successfully compiled. I do understand now the problem of not 
having the time or not having the hardware or to be frustrated because 
nothing works.

Meanwhile I tried to crosscompile that thing for powerpc64 on my macbook 
pro m1 pro so it should go faster, but I always have problems with (I 
think) big endian things.

Another option I thought could be to emulate a power8 system with a lot 
of cores and to install also debian 12 ppc64 on this and compile there…

I also think about power consumption of the POwermac G5 when he compiles 
3 days for nothing with both cores at 100%.

Til this day I never had success to compile Firefox successfully even once.

I know that even famous Rene Rebe is not able to compile because things 
are broken.

Jan

Am 18.11.24 um 16:39 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
> Hi Jan,
> […]
> 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
>