Re: Modern browsers on OpenBSD for PowerPC?

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:08:36 +0800
Sergio Had <[email protected]> wrote:

> Palemoon and Arctic Fox are non-Rust options. Those should be
> feasible and reasonably functional.

I don't want to discuss Pale Moon,
https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86

> I had an impression that Qt5 is only broken on macOS. Disappointing
> if this is so on BSD as well.

OpenBSD has powerpc packages of Qt5, but without qtwebengine (because
qtwebengine is chromium).

> It may be worth dumping LLVM/Clang in favor of GCC in fact, the
> latter has way better support for PPC and more reasonable upstream,
> in my experience.

clang runs better than gcc on OpenBSD.  clang, with OpenBSD's patches,
has features like RETGUARD, https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html

OpenBSD is stuck on old gcc versions, uses gcc 8.4.0 to compile
Fortran code in powerpc packages.
--gkoehler