Hi Jan, On Mon, 2024-11-18 at 15:43 +0100, Jan Montag wrote: > since I just bought a Powermac G5 (powermac11.2) Dual 2 GHz, I'm > running Debian 12 SID on it. I also keep trying to compile or install a > current browser. Unfortunately this doesn't work for reasons I don't > understand. How has this progressed? The current version of Firefox is > 132.0.0.2 and still produces the memory access error on my ppc64 Mac. > Segmentation fault. Is there anything new to report here? I can > definitely try something out with guidance. But I'm not a programmer or > even a hacker.
The problem is that Firefox is currently not fully compatible with big-endian systems like your PowerMac G5. There are supposedly patches which address these issues, notably on Solaris SPARC. However, I simply did not have the time yet to go through Oracle's patches [1] one by one and verify which of these patches fix the segfault. However, the backtrace of the segfault might give us an idea which of the patches fixes the crash since symbols (e.g. function names) of the problematic code should show both in the backtrace as well as any of the patches from Oracle. Please keep in mind that I'm all doing this in my free time and I'm not getting paid for anything, so I really have to balance the time I'm spending on various issues. Adrian > [1] > https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/desktop/firefox/patches -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
