Re: Firefox now available on Debian/sparc64

[Kevin Stabel <kevin.stabel@gmail.com>]

Hi!

I just tried it.  It launches and runs (!!!)

Bus error as you said, but looks very promising :)

I was able to get to google for a short time.

I get a lot of "[GFX1} Unknown image format" errors.

It doesn't run for very for me yet, but it shows a lot of promise!

Thank you so much!

Kind Regards,

-Kevin

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 8:43 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

On 12/12/2016 03:38 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> So, I just tried it myself. It actually starts and shows the main window,
> but it crashes with SIGBUS at some point. However, this is something that
> should be easy to debug with gdb.

Michael Karcher helped me locate the issue. And, of course, it's a matter of
using memcpy() to fix the bug. Will send a patch upstream.

I'm now browsing the web with Firefox on Linux/sparc64 :).

Adrian

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