Hi Adrian,
thank you very much for that clarification. I wanted to try to build it
on own hardware, I thought it might be a good idea because it's then
real-world.
I want to say that Rene Rebe also built Firefox but it doesnt run on T2
afaik.
Thank you for the links in the second post, I give them a try because it
sounds clever ^^
Thank you,
Jan
Hi Jan,
I don't recommend using an old PowerMac for building anything as big as
Firefox. Rather, I'd recommend either requesting an instance running
Debian ppc64 (big-endian) on the OpenPOWER platform [1] or getting an
account with the GCC Compile Farm [2].
Both are free for FOSS developers.
I'd suggest making sure first that the code builds fine with the patches
applied. You can do that natively on x86_64 or M1.
Another option I thought could be to emulate a power8 system with a lot
of cores and to install also debian 12 ppc64 on this and compile there…
I don't recommend that, it's just too slow.
I also think about power consumption of the POwermac G5 when he compiles
3 days for nothing with both cores at 100%.
--
Herzlichst Jan Montag
via vintage computing
