Subject: Re: Browsers on NetBSD sparc
To: Michael Lorenz <macallan@NetBSD.org>
From: Laurens Vets <laurens@daemon.be>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/02/2005 14:40:25
Hi,

>>Hmm, so this won't work on sparc?  Hence, me trying to rebuild 
>>mozilla-gtk2 is actually fruitless? :)
> 
> It would probably work if you had XFree86. 
> 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.

I'm new to NetBSD, it seems to be the only open source OS running 
decently on my system (SS20, Dual HyperSparc).  Didn't know it uses a 
sparc specific X.

>>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.

Compiling indeed takes days ;)  It compiles and installs perfectly, 
however, when it starts, I get a segmentation fault.  That's what 
started this whole discussion.

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

I'm trying, it doesn't work though :)

Regards,
Laurens