Re: What are the current available browser options for debian-ppc64?
Hi!
On Mon, 2023-11-20 at 22:32 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> 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].
I have just been reminded by a comment in the upstream bug report [1] that the VoidPPC
project actually has a number of patches which fix issues in Firefox on PowerPC [2] and
I'm rebuilding Firefox with this patch [3] now which claims to address issues with the
image decoder on big-endian targets.
Let's see.
Adrian
PS: This is why it's so important to upstream patches. The VoidPPC and Solaris people did
so much work but didn't push for their patches to be merged upstream or at least, they
weren't trying hard enough.
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1845669
>
> [2] https://github.com/void-ppc/void-packages-ppc750/tree/master/srcpkgs/firefox/patches
> [3] https://github.com/void-ppc/void-packages-ppc750/blob/master/srcpkgs/firefox/patches/big-endian-image-decoders.patch
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