Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/www/firefox

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 03:49:48PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Does this mean you have arrived at something to commit, so that the
> checked-in rust will build the checked-in firefox, and the only issue is
> that the resulting firefox binary will require a 586 or higher CPU that
> has SSE2?  (Which we know doesn't exist, but that all 686+ has?  so that
> the only minus is that it won't run on AMD Geode and some truly ancient
> hardware?)

The originaly failing code Havard mentioned is a single file that is
compiled with sse2 support that optionally is selected at runtime when
the cpu can do sse2. Similar things happen for arm and neon (if I understood
the code correctly).

So it would need further testing, but it could be that the 
pkg still would run fine on 586 (like Geode based machines).

Martin