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Re: Firefox 52esr on PPC32 is outdated



Thanks for your explanation,but  why Node.JS? Why don't we have it on ppc32?

One alternative is to build either Firefox using nodejsc or use a version of Firefox that requires rust but not Node.JS


Em dom., 15 de set. de 2024 12:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> escreveu:
Hello Leo,

On Sun, 2024-09-15 at 12:40 -0300, Leo Historias wrote:
> Still, we already have rust in the PPC32 repositories so why not compile
> Firefox with that Rust? Ironically, even i386 has Firefox 115ESR and it
> doesn't require sse2 at all unlike the official Firefox download page at
> Mozilla. 

Rust isn't the only requirement for Firefox these days, but we also need
NodeJS which is currently not available on 32-bit PowerPC.

While it is possible to cross-transpile the _javascript_ files for PowerPC
from x86_64, no one has implemented that yet for Debian, so we currently
cannot build Firefox on 32-bit PowerPC.

Adrian

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