Super Biscuit wrote: > --- On Fri, 4/30/10, Beat Gaetzi <b...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Super Biscuit wrote: >> --- On Wed, 4/28/10, Beat Gaetzi <b...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> Super Biscuit wrote: >>> --- On Tue, 4/27/10, Beat Gaetzi <b...@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> >>> From: Beat Gaetzi <b...@freebsd.org> >>> Subject: Re: Build instructions for firefox >>> To: "Super Biscuit" <super_bisq...@yahoo.com> >>> Cc: ge...@freebsd.org >>> Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 7:22 PM >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Super Biscuit wrote: >>>> Forgive me for bothering you.Is there a set of instructions available >>>> for building firefox on a ppcG3 machine? Make install dies at >>>> libxul/xulrunner even after I disabled java xpcom. Build results are the >>>> same for all mozilla-firefox dependent browsers- kazehakase and midori >>>> have the same results. Present system is 9.0 SNAPSHOT powerpc. System RAM >>>> 386M with 374M available. 400mHz >>> G3/750. >>> >>> Do you use a port (like www/firefox) for building firefox? As far as I >>> know all firefox ports should build on PowerPC. If not please provide >>> the build output where the build breaks, custom settings in >>> /etc/make.conf and the output of "make showconfig". >>> >>> Beat >>> >>> >>> >>> How? I can only upload files to slexy or ompload not pipe the outputs >>> there. /etc/make.conf only has the perlversion listed. >>> To further clarify/explain: >>> I have to look at the output of the G3. I'm using an x86 box to access the >>> internet graphically. Things build slow on the G3. It's been working for >>> almost two days and etoile is still not finished. >>> I hope that this explains my last reply. >> Feel free to upload the output to some pastebin services and we will >> take a look at it. >> >> Beat >> >> The showconfig is at http://slexy.org/view/s20gosMsuz . >> The make.conf is at http://slexy.org/view/s21SZiHrwe . > > It looks like you were building libxul instead of firefox. As far as I > know current version www/libxul does not build on PowerPC. We are > working on an update of libxul to 1.9.2 which is working on PowerPC. > There were several ports which currently break with 1.9.2 and need to be > fixed first. > > You could checkout libxul 1.9.2 from our development repository: > # svn co > https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/svn/freebsd-gecko/branches/experimental/www/libxul-devel/ > > If you like to run Firefox on PowerPC then please use www/firefox. > > Beat > > > I'd like to try the patch out myself and I take full responsibility if I > break my system. > > Is it patch -p /path/to/patch -C path/to/md/unix?
You could use this patch: http://tmp.chruetertee.ch/libxul-1.9.2.patch # cd /usr/ports/www/libxul # fetch http://tmp.chruetertee.ch/libxul-1.9.2.patch # patch -p2 -E < libxul-1.9.2.patch # rm *.orig files/*.orig # make install clean Beat _______________________________________________ freebsd-gecko@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gecko To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gecko-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
