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

Hi Adrian,

thank you very much for that clarification. I wanted to try to build it 
on own hardware, I thought it might be a good idea because it's then 
real-world.

I want to say that Rene Rebe also built Firefox but it doesnt run on T2 
afaik.

Thank you for the links in the second post, I give them a try because it 
sounds clever ^^

Thank you,
Jan

> Hi Jan,
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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%.

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