Subject: Re: Browsers on NetBSD sparc
To: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/30/2005 22:05:39
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 08:04:29AM -0400, Michael Lorenz wrote:
> 
> Hmm, I have the same problems on sparc64 - I thought it's 64bit
> uncleanliness. 

Try doing this:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/pkg/lib firefox-gtk2

and see what happens - I had a nasty time with firefox stability on my
amd64 machine until I added the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it would crash when
rendering a page.  I only thought of doing that because gimp bitched
about an old version of fontconfig.so it found in /usr/X11R6/lib -
setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH points firefox at the pkgsrc version of
fontconfig.so which, at least for me, made firefox much much more
stable.

> 
> See above. But since mozilla fails with a bus error here I guess it's
> still 64bit-related.
> 

Well, it could still be a sparc64 related issue but I can say for
certain that it runs fine on amd64 so I don't think it is a generic
64-bit problem (maybe an endian bug though :)

-- 
Brett Lymn