Subject: Re: Browsers on NetBSD sparc
To: Laurens Vets <laurens@daemon.be>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/02/2005 08:28:13
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Hello,

> Hmm, so this won't work on sparc?  Hence, me trying to rebuild=20
> mozilla-gtk2 is actually fruitless? :)

It would probably work if you had XFree86.=20
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.

> 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.
If you have loads of RAM and fast Hyper- or TurboSPARC CPU(s) it may be
worth a try though.

have fun
Michael

PS: for the records - the mozilla-gtk2 built with native Xft2, xfree2
and fontconfig on macppc doesn't seem to show any of the weird rendering
problems I had before. No idea if that's because of newer patches
though.

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