Subject: Re: Browsers on NetBSD sparc
To: Laurens Vets <laurens@daemon.be>
From: Bruce O'Neel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/02/2005 12:43:23
Hi,
You might try adding
/usr/pkg/lib
to the beginning of LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Also make sure that you rm -rf ~/.mozilla before you start if you've run
firefox and/or mozilla sometime in the past.
cheers
bruce
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 02:40:25PM +0200, Laurens Vets wrote:
> 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
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