Subject: Re: Browsers on NetBSD sparc
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.org>
From: Laurens Vets <laurens@daemon.be>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/04/2005 10:33:54
> You might try adding
> 
> /usr/pkg/lib
> 
> to the beginning of LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> 
> Also make sure that you rm -rf ~/.mozilla before you start if you've run
> firefox and/or mozilla sometime in the past.

Hi Bruce,

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/pkg/lib
$ mozilla-gtk2
Memory fault (core dumped)
$

:(

>>>>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
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