On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 07:35:56 -0800
Ben Collver <collver@peak.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 03:18:56PM +0000, segv@netctl.net wrote:
> > Ben Collver <collver@peak.org> wrote:
> > > I got firefox to compile, but then it coredumps.
> > > Maybe using pkg_comp with the NetBSD/sparc sets to build a 32-bit binary
> > > would do the trick.  I haven't tried that yet.
> > 
> > No chance, since compat_netbsd32 on sparc64 does not support threading.
> > Which kind of brings me to another question: what's the difference between
> > compat_netbsd32 and the way Solaris executes 32-bit code on 64-bit kernel?
> 
> What if I put PTHREAD_TYPE=pth in mk.conf?
> 
> Ben

Give it a try. You may need to work around various bugs associated with
compiling and executing 32-bit binaries when running 64-bit kernel and
userland. See my PR
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=28930