---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Leo Historias <leohistoriasanima...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 2:52 PM Subject: Re: Firefox 52esr on PPC32 is outdated To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Any news yet? On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 8:13 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > 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 > >
