Subject: Re: Browsers on NetBSD sparc
To: Michael Lorenz <macallan@NetBSD.org>
From: Laurens Vets <laurens@daemon.be>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/02/2005 14:40:25
Hi,
>>Hmm, so this won't work on sparc? Hence, me trying to rebuild
>>mozilla-gtk2 is actually fruitless? :)
>
> It would probably work if you had XFree86.
> The fontconfig package should fall back to install itself when it
> doesn't find a native version supplied by XFree86. These weren't
> intended for sparc anyway, sorry if I didn't make that clear enough.
I'm new to NetBSD, it seems to be the only open source OS running
decently on my system (SS20, Dual HyperSparc). Didn't know it uses a
sparc specific X.
>>Not being able to run a 'decent' browser on sparc kinda sucks :/
>
> Mozilla should build and work without these hacks, although I never
> tried because the only 32bit sparc I have here is a 110MHz microSPARC
> with 64MB RAM - not enough for a beast like Mozilla - it would crawl,
> swap like hell and even if the box had 256MB or so it would still not
> be fast. Compiling would take days.
Compiling indeed takes days ;) It compiles and installs perfectly,
however, when it starts, I get a segmentation fault. That's what
started this whole discussion.
> If you have loads of RAM and fast Hyper- or TurboSPARC CPU(s) it may be
> worth a try though.
I'm trying, it doesn't work though :)
Regards,
Laurens