Re: Pkgsrc-2017Q3 Firefox on sparc64

Sad Clouds <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.
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