Hi list,

>>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.
> 
> It uses Xsun or Xsun24, you can install XFree86, it should support
> whatever graphics adapter you're using ( probably unaccelerated though )
> but getting it to work is not quite trivial. I did it for my SPARCbook,
> mainly to write a driver for the graphics chip but because one of the
> RAM modules has problems I won't be able to do anything about that any
> time soon.

Hmmm, not quite an option for me then :)

>>>>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.
> 
> Hmm, can you trace it in gdb? That's not for the faint-hearted though. 
> ( look at the script you run to start mozilla - should be in
> /usr/pkg/bin/mozilla. It will set a bunch of environment variables and
> then run mozilla-bin. You'd have to set up the variables and then run
> mozilla-bin in gdb - this should at least tell you where exactly it
> barfs )

Somebody told me that I have to make sure that LD_LIBRARY_PATH must be 
set correctly.  I've rebuild mozilla and noticed a segmentation fault at 
the very end: (maybe I missed that previously...)
...
  BSD_INSTALL_GAME_DATA=/usr/bin/install\ -c\ -o\ root\ -g\ wheel\ -m\ 
644 WRAPPER_DEBUG="yes" /bin/sh "../../www/mozilla/files"/moz-install
[1]   Segmentation fault (core dumped) ${SETENV} LD_LIB...
[1]   Segmentation fault (core dumped) ${SETENV} LD_LIB...
===> [Automatic ELF shared object handling]
===> Registering installation for mozilla-gtk2-1.7.8
mozilla-gtk2-1.7.8 requires installed package Xft2-2.1.6nb1
...

Mozilla is installed though.  If it has nothing to do with that segfault 
I'll try to run gdb.

>>>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 :)
> 
> Let's see if it's something easy. It's supposed to work though. In doubt
> you can (probably) run the Solaris binary ;)

Should I maybe post a bug for this?  Along with the work.log etc?

Btw, building mozilla-gtk2 took: "117918.14s real 42732753.74s user 
37995526.94s system" if you're interested :) :)

Thanks in advance!