> On Sep 28, 2024, at 6:31 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2024-09-28 at 06:14 -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote:
>> But as detailed in the thread last November, I ran into trouble getting a
>> build
>> system working in debian PPC for the current Firefox code base. I asked for
>> help, but nothing was suggested. So that is still in a folder on my dual G5.
>
> Just install and set up sbuild, then download the firefox source and build
> it using sbuild.
>
> If you want to build the upstream sources, you can just create a schroot,
> install the build dependencies and build Firefox according to the upstream
> build instructions.
>
> I don't think it's actually really any difficult.
Indeed, thank goodness it is so trivially easy to build things on debian. I
have build -- many things now. For one recent impressive one, the 64 bit PPC
version Lazarus has a longstanding crashing error, but the 32 bit version,
built from source and installed on 64 bit PPC, works just fine.
>
>> Adrian apparently does have a working build system for that code base,
>> and perhaps we might get something going.
>
> I'm just using the standard tools available in Debian. It's not really rocket
> science.
>
> I also don't remember seeing any questions regarding that here, but my memory
> might
> fail me here.
I can't expect you to remember everything that goes on here on this list,
certainly.
And I didn't bring it up again, so it likely drifted past like a cloud...
The issue was noted here (long time ago now):
https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2023/11/msg00055.html
My new best friend, ChatGPT, tells me it was likely a permissions problem, and
although I am pretty sure I would have tried a trivial fix like that, I'll give
it another go when the machine warms up and see.
Best,
Ken
>
> Adrian
>
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