Re: Bug#1105090 closed by Debian FTP Masters <[email protected]> (reply to Mike Hommey <[email protected]>) (Bug#1105090: fixed in firefox 138.0.3-1)

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Hi Mike,

thanks for quickly taking care of this!

Unfortunately, your approach does not work, it still tries to use lld.

I suggest using my patch which overrides the default compiler for powerpc,
ppc64 and sparc64:

diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index eb6dd1b73d0..6c46bcb9fec 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -113,6 +113,11 @@ ifneq (,$(filter mips%,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH)))
        CONFIGURE_FLAGS += --disable-webrtc
 endif
 
+ifneq (,$(filter powerpc ppc64 sparc64,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH)))
+       CC := gcc
+       CXX := g++
+endif
+
 ifeq (default,$(origin CC))
 ifneq (,$(filter-out bullseye bookworm,$(DIST)))
 CC := clang

I have verified this to work.

As for powerpc and sparc64: Firefox can be built on these targets by using
the output generated by NodeJS on x86_64 and injecting the files there. I
am currently working on a mechanism to integrate this into the Debian package.

The idea comes from the Oracle Solaris developers which use this approach to
build Firefox for Solaris SPARC [1].

Adrian

> [1] https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/desktop/firefox/wrapper-node

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