Re: Pkgsrc-2017Q3 Firefox on sparc64
Sad Clouds <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64 |
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On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 11:12:06 +0200 Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 10:09:20AM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote: > > Also, can anyone recommend alternative web browser that works > > reasonably well on sparc64? These days most recent versions of > > software seems to be designed to work only on Linux x86. > > Firefox 52 ESR works "good enough" for me on sparc64. > > It still crashes every now and then and misses a few things when > compositing goes wrong on big endian hardware. > > I'll look at newer versions soon. > > Martin OK I'll try firefox 52. Tried firefox from pkgsrc current, but it won't even build since it now requires clang and rust, and rust is not supported on sparc64.