Hi Adrian, thank you for your time. This sounds a bit complicated for the newer versions.
Currently i don't know where to start. I was trying to build the old firefox52 and thunderbird52 which run on NetBSD/Sparc64 from pkgsrc and manually. The thunderbird52 exists on debian and the firefox package did skip 52 and was only released as a 50 with error messages filling up the console. I can get them to build with pkgsrc and manually but some patches seem to be missing to avoid bus errors in libxul.so on debian. Unfortunately i don't know yet how debian builds its own packages and where to find the patches used in those builds, so that i could reproduce the building of firefox50 and thunderbird52 to maybe learn something as a starting point. Regards, Connor On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 12:55 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < [email protected]> wrote: > On 11/8/21 11:07, Rick Leir wrote: > > The reason that I think PPC is related is that, if it is also BE then > PPC users may > > have solved some of the compatibility problems that we experience. I > realize that > > there's a difference in this between PPC and Sparc; but some of the > PPC fixes can > > at least suggest Sparc fixes as long as they have stayed BE. IBM is > putting considerable > > effort into this. > > The fundamental problem with Firefox and Thunderbird is that building both > requires NodeJS. > > There is no NodeJS for SPARC which is why you have to compile the > JavaScript sources on a > different architecture and then put them into the SPARC > Firefox/Thunderbird packages, see: > > > > https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/desktop/firefox/wrapper-node > > This has got nothing to do with big-endian vs. little-endian. > > > I talked with an IBM consultant at the X11 conference in Montreal two > years ago. But we didn't > > discuss Sparc. And I didn't discuss IBM changing to LE. Is it true? > > IBM is supporting Linux on POWER both big- and little-endian. Their > zSeries mainframes are BE > and so is AIX on POWER. > > Big-endian is not going anywhere, doesn't matter what anyone on Phoronix > or the LKML writes. > > And it's not related to Firefox or Thunderbird on SPARC as explained above. > > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 > >
