Re: ArcticFox browser on NetBSD 10.1 sparc64

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

Just a quick public followup for the record.

On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 01:29:12 +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> Valery Ushakov wrote:
> > It's not clear from the above, do you see that "full rebuild" behavior
> > on all NetBSD hosts?  (and it's just the sparc64 build times that make
> > sparc64 especially bad).
> 
> Yes, a full rebuild is seen on all hosts, be it NetBSD 9.x or 10.x and all
> architectures I tried on.
> 
> It is just that sparc64 is very slow which makes it unbearable :)
> 
> 
> > If there're any details pertinent to the shell issue, I'm sure kre@
> > will be eager to hear about them:)
> 
> the shell thing was a tip from alexnia, I never verified myself since it
> requires substituting the standard shell. I don't know if there are other
> workarounds to try to use another shell, for example.

When internet portals were a thing, there was a portal called Yahoo!
They ran a quote of the day on their front page and I distinctly
remember one of them by the director of the Yosemite National Park:

  My problems usually begin when the dumber of my visitors meet the
  smarter of my bears.

Long story short - the problem was that mozilla's rococo build system
failed to ignore LINENO and RANDOM shell variables, so it thought
build settings changed (b/c RANDOM), so it re-generated the identical
(but forcedly touched) config header that all the world depends on.

(I don't know why bash-as-sh doesn't trigger it and I don't have any
desire to waste any more time on that Laocoo:n of pythons and shells)

-uwe