Subject: Re: Anyone manage to build mozilla from pkgsrc?
To: Dave Schanen <microvilii@yahoo.com>
From: Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
List: port-amd64
Date: 08/02/2004 13:07:31
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 01:08:20PM -0700, Dave Schanen wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Let me first say that the 2.0Beta runs great on my system (Athlon64
> 3000 with a K8T800 based Giga-byte mobo) while other "stable" operating
> systems have not been quite so successful running in 64 bit mode on
> here.  Anyway, I set to work building some basic apps from the current
> pkgsrc, and Mozilla and derivatives(firefox, epiphany, & galleon) all
> seem to dump core.  Rather than rebuild with debugging information, I
> thought I would just ask here anyone else has managed to make these
> work on amd64 in general or the athlon64 chips in particular so I have
> any idea if it is specific to my setup in some way.

Please see recent PR port-amd64/26499

I just tried it, and it works fine on my dual Opteron workstation
(Tyan S2885).

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.