Thanks to the efforts of Franz Sirl, waterson, and many others (including the whole mozilla team), the mozilla project now supports Linux/PowerPC (Way to go guys!). A PowerPC build (compiled by yours truly) of mozilla M13 is now available on ftp.mozilla.org and, presumably, most if not all mirrors. Note that this is an updated build from the one originally placed on mozilla.org - the new copy's md5 sum (for verification, should you so desire) is:
$ md5sum mozilla-ppc-unknown-linux-gnu-M13.tar.gz c3a2116818b672a1ef42f9fa27036656 mozilla-ppc-unknown-linux-gnu-M13.tar.gz If you have the older build (from yesterday) and have it working, there is no compelling reason to re-download. The only changes center around the first run and link errors regarding the absence of libelf.so.0 on LinuxPPC. This build is statically linked with libelf, so the various solutions (mostly fairly ugly) bandied around the linuxppc-dev list should no longer be necessary. Also, the component.reg file is included so that it is no longer necessary to run it as root immediately after install. It requires glibc2.1 (debian, LinuxPPC 1999, probably most others), and libstdc++-2.10, which many of you may need to obtain separately) LinuxPPC users: ftp.linuxppc.com/linuxppc-1999/software/updates debian users: apt-get install libstdc++2.10 others: see your distribution ftp site, I really don't know. This version was built with ./configure --disable-tests --disable-debug --enable-optimize --enable-x11-shm To install it, untar the file in a location of your choice (I suggest /usr/local/). To run mozilla, cd /usr/local/package (or wherever you put it) and type ./mozilla. Good Luck all, and please keep in mind that this is pre-release software. All the usual caveats of such software apply. This build has been tested on Debian/PPC (my platform) and on LinuxPPC 1999. It has not been tested on MkLinux, Yellowdog Linux, or others, but it is likely that it will work. If you are seeing library problems, or other problems most likely related to this specific build, please feel free to contact me about them (email me directly, please). If you are seeing problems with mozilla itself, please see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/, and either add comments to existing bugs (try the search function) or file a new bug report.
