Re: ArcticFox browser on NetBSD 10.1 sparc64

On 28/05/2026 12:09, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> A moment long awaited, after having worked for more than 6 years of working on 
> ArcticFox.
> It starts, displays and work on NetBSD sparc64! (NetBSD ppc32 too, btw).
> 
> Challenges were not easy and while some fixes kept in flowing the target also moved.
> 
> v47.2 is out today and brings back support! Binary provided for the curious.
> 
> Screenshot shows it running on NetraT1!
> 
> 
> Only real drawback is the core NetBSD issue: a build means always a full build, it 
> reconfigures always from scratch. Other OSs (including OpenBSD and FreeBSD) are not 
> affected by this. It makes testing very hard.
> 
> To give an idea: on my 2-core amd64 NetBSD build it takes 2 hours, on my G4 1.33GHz 
> iBook it takes 4-5hours, on my Netra T1 Ultra IIe 500Mhz it takes 40 hours!
> Change a single line and all starts again! For build farms it is not detected, but 
> for development it is a hard take.
> 
> Apart that for some reason compiling on UltraSPARC appears quite slow, it is a NetBSD 
> issue that should be fixed, if somebody wants to help.
> alexnia suggested a shell issue and apparently hard-replacing sh with bash fixes it, 
> I never tried since it is a dangerous thing to do.
> 
> Riccardo

Congratulations Riccardo, this really is a fantastic work! Is there anywhere that we 
can see the screenshots?


ATB,

Mark.