Re: Pkgsrc-2017Q3 Firefox on sparc64

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:01:13 +0200
Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 03:52:06PM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote:
> > OK I'll try firefox 52. Tried firefox from pkgsrc current, but it
> > won't even build since it now requires clang and rust, and rust is
> > not supported on sparc64. 
> 
> Yeah, pkgsrc does not yet know about it, but it exists:

OK, this is not related to rust but has anyone tried corss-compiling
firefox on x86 for sparc64?

https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/doc/HOWTO-use-crosscompile

I sometimes get gcc segmentation fault on NetBSD sparc64 when building
packages, likely to be hardware/memory issues, this machine is very old
and probably needs to be scrapped, I only keep it because I like Sun
keyboard.