Building Firefox and Thunderbird on riscv64
Hi!
Getting Firefox to build on riscv64 shouldn't be too difficult.
For one, there are only a few small arch-specific changes necessary to
be added for the riscv64 port analogue to the sparc64 and other ports
[1, 2, 3].
To avoid the dependency on Nodejs, we would just have to build the
Javascript files in the arch:all package [4, 5] and either patch the
Firefox build system locally to use pre-built Javascript files or just
use a bash wrapper script for /usr/bin/node like Solaris does for
its SPARC port [6].
Would anyone be interested to work on this with me?
Adrian
> [1] https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6123659a067649fb4cdedb4f328b2bb950102f0c
> [2] https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e62e2c17d75be07bc9f5e96f1c8135e976591b5b
> [3] https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/1380d9d6ee091148e34537052bf23e79639ed734
> [4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/01/msg00229.html
> [5] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=920902
> [6] https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/desktop/firefox/wrapper-node/node
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