Subject: Re: Mozilla build
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: T. M. Pederson <salvage@plethora.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/28/2000 08:37:38
On "Sat, 28 Oct 2000 09:07:39 -0400", mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
>On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Greywolf wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
>> 
>> # Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 22:20:33 GMT
>> # From: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
>> # To: port-sparc@netbsd.org
>> # Subject: Mozilla build
>> # 
>> # 
>> # I've ported Mozilla to NetBSD/sparc.
>> 
>> ...!  That's quite an accomplishment!

I'll second that.

>> # For the less patient (and trust
>> # me, it takes a lot of patience to build Mozilla), there is now a
>> # binary pkg at:
>> 
>> Is that patience as in straight time, or patience as in "be prepared to
>> spend the next thirty-six hours straight dinking with all the things that
>> will go wrong during the process"?
>
>this is as in 'make' took nearly 24 hours on a SS10.  And this is _after_
>all the DEPENDS had already been installed.  so its just straight time.

I'm not surprised.  I started building it on an IPC about a day
before you posted; it's still not done...

I think I'll let it run.  I just have to know.