Hi Ricardo, On Thu, 2024-11-14 at 11:25 +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > I don't know which kind of news you expect? did you do anything?
Agreed. > On my side, ArcticFox, I was able to find out by bisecting (that means > about one week of compilation attempts on my PowerBook). > Built-in ICU broke and build needs to use system ICU. I have now working > build again... so a decently usable browser for basic needs. FWIW, you can get access to to a PowerPC machine running big-endian Linux either though OpenPOWER at OSUOSL or the GCC Compile Farm. You don't have to do the bisecting on your old PowerBook ;-). > Current Firefox has a build fix which I am not able to import yet too > divergent code base, maybe in the future. > > On debian there are no issues, I made a binary available. > > I did no work on Firefox, last time it didn't work. Generally on a PPC32 > system I expect it to be barely usable, even if it had no bugs. On > equivalent Intel systems (e.g. a PIII) it is quite slow nowadays, albeit > usable for basic needs. > > Trade-off between more usability and more compatibility. For current Firefox on 32-bit PowerPC, we would need to come up with a way to cross-transpile the embedded Javascript code in Firefox from x86_64. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
