Re: firefox on sparc64

On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 23:52:26 +0200
Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 09:17:21PM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote:
> > I started it as root and it ran for about 6 minutes in the
> > background at 100% cpu then exited without any messages. Running it
> > again as root result in the same behavior as normal user, i.e. runs
> > for a few seconds then exits without any messages.
> 
> The first time run it updates some profile entries.
> If the -P invocation does not help, I have no clue - it just works
> (*) for me, I use it regularily.
> 
> You could rebuild the pkg with options debug enabled, then it will be
> a lot verbose and probably tell you what goes wrong.
> 
> Martin
> (*) the pkgsrc version is not able to reliably do https for me -
> while the version I initally build straight from hg sources works
> fine - I am still trying to track this down, but it is not as easy as
> an imediate crash, and everything I looked at in more detail for now
> just works as expected, just overall the puzzle does not seem to fit.

OK thanks for the info. If https is broken I might just not bother with
firefox. Maybe be KDE konqueror works on sparc64.