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

Hi Jan,

On Sat, 2024-11-30 at 09:34 +0100, Jan Montag wrote:
> 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.

I don't recommend using an old PowerMac for building anything as big as
Firefox. Rather, I'd recommend either requesting an instance running
Debian ppc64 (big-endian) on the OpenPOWER platform [1] or getting an
account with the GCC Compile Farm [2].

Both are free for FOSS developers.

> 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.

I'd suggest making sure first that the code builds fine with the patches
applied. You can do that natively on x86_64 or M1.

> 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 don't recommend that, it's just too slow.

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

Yeah, not really recommend.

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

Firefox builds just fine on ppc64:

- https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=firefox&arch=ppc64&ver=133.0-1&stamp=1732700057&raw=0

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

Again, it builds fine in Debian ;-).

Adrian

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