From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 08:35:34 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DE3AEE48 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2014 08:35:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from forward19.mail.yandex.net (forward19.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:1402::4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "forwards.mail.yandex.net", Issuer "Certum Level IV CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9313B25BD for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2014 08:35:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from web18g.yandex.ru (web18g.yandex.ru [95.108.252.118]) by forward19.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id C57C811220A6; Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:35:30 +0400 (MSK) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by web18g.yandex.ru (Yandex) with ESMTP id F2BB618406B3; Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:35:29 +0400 (MSK) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.ru; s=mail; t=1403166930; bh=LWmXkuLOGWbpZJidZJJCp76aV92vKyai0xPwZMTaFRE=; h=From:To:In-Reply-To:References:Subject:Date; b=smjJg6Z1fOvWLSYcWHkqqSDXHyRfOEDNwpLSVx1seuppNitamQ7Hzg7ipmMvyrIFM +/e1gVXKG/UpT1lDhSpHAHrBpz4ZgzDZpahrfFEIULwUloUZ1rEj9kzIBkkBdB6m2f 3w4b2BC889lLyT/ZXvIt/fSPrM2blYOpgK4hkQ8c= Received: from fw01.smlabs.net (fw01.smlabs.net [185.5.42.3]) by web18g.yandex.ru with HTTP; Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:35:29 +0400 From: Konstantin Tokarev To: "mexas@bris.ac.uk" , "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" In-Reply-To: <201406190826.s5J8QQlS060596@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <201406190826.s5J8QQlS060596@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Subject: Re: any javascript browser works on sparc64? MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <3852271403166929@web18g.yandex.ru> X-Mailer: Yamail [ http://yandex.ru ] 5.0 Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:35:29 +0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 08:35:34 -0000 19.06.2014, 12:26, "Anton Shterenlikht" : > I had to switch to sparc64 for my X clients. > www/firefox is blocked by multimedia/libvpx. > > Can anybody recommend a working web browser with > javascript? > It should be possible to build Firefox without libvpx which is needed only to decode WebM HTML5 video (I guess you can get along with it on sparc64 :) So I would try to hack port (or maybe even Firefox source if there is no appropriate configure option - there shouldn't be a lot of places in code where libvpx is used) Alternatively, you can try Konqueror, but it's JS support is somewhat outdated. Maybe something WebKit-based will also work for you (but not Chromium!) -- Regards, Konstantin