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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