Re: What are the current available browser options for debian-ppc64?
Hi Jeffrey!
On Mon, 2023-11-20 at 15:37 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 1:56 PM Ken Cunningham
> <ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > The one I have installed is:
> >
> > firefox/unstable,now 119.0.1-1 ppc64
> >
> > and it has a segmentation fault when you launch it.
>
> Out of curiosity... would that happen to be a G4 or a non-Altivec machine?
There is currently no up-to-date version of Firefox for 32-bit PowerPC since Firefox
currently requires NodeJS to build which is not available on 32-bit PowerPC at the
moment.
It is actually possible, however, to use transpile the JavaScript files from x86_64
for 32-bit PowerPC so that NodeJS is actually not needed. The Debian package does
not implement such a mechanism at the moment though while Oracle does it on Solaris
for SPARC [1].
Anyways, this particular crash a known upstream bug in Firefox [2]. I wonder whether
it might be fixed by this particular patch [3].
Adrian
> [1] https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/desktop/firefox/wrapper-node
> [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1845669
> [3] https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/desktop/firefox/patches/firefox-53-sparc-gfx-atomicops.patch
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