Hello John, thank you very much for your quick feedback. My question was not intended as criticism, you shouldn't misunderstand that. But since the topic was already a year old, I was interested to see if there were any new findings. SeaLion is an exciting thing and it works. Otherwise, the Powermac G5 is actually no longer the most up-to-date computer, but I love working on it. Most of the Time in terminal apps.
Keep up the good work. Simcerely, Jan Am Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:39:10 +0100 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>: > 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 > > >
