From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 10 16:20:43 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D87CD336 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:20:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-x231.google.com (mail-lb0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5AD29FA6 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:20:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lbbqq2 with SMTP id qq2so17370015lbb.3 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:20:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=reub6n5L714fpAlEfPLPIQkrMBkqZ42vyQfifo/cGic=; b=qJiNE9PIWgvS4Kg8UZXq/2Ac3MyCRXiHW8KSFQFknGPwMUBk9b/MxusAYbqPilcWW1 ukWFD7Yx9l1K/LoZj08E6pGDlksLMUSOuJRD4yuNe3asnMHyCUys1Q2zX/TU6QJfzZb2 4EMaF/wNoVxuPi4HF9EmH5qItTcse1UbzkHGjG0rVr20+4ERj5+OF5c2ddTkpzjVUzsa U5XTUMzC6+mHFXZ4MfEUPVNcHWtzpyZ/ULPLIBMZFSdbfzWicraRBsOjsEuFXpxS8E/h 71qgH6PE98leuaKG6bQlIjjnIYDq4j/ir+oChSt/VwQgMKmc1AomqX9doK2QxzW2r1fh 89Zg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.197.34 with SMTP id ir2mr2141937lac.36.1428682841247; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:20:41 -0700 (PDT) Sender: chmeeedalf@gmail.com Received: by 10.25.130.5 with HTTP; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:20:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5527EFCB.1000503@paranoici.org> References: <5527EFCB.1000503@paranoici.org> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:20:41 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6lazo_X8jSbvaxiibwbLOI5BKGo Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD on eMac G4 1.25 GHz From: Justin Hibbits To: aggaz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:20:44 -0000 Could you give more details on the browser? I last built Firefox 35.0, which I'm running on a G5 (powerpc64), but I have had some problems building firefox off and on, for both 32-bit and 64-bit. If you are running into a reproducible problem, please file a PR at https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ and someone may take a look at it (most of the ports guys don't seem to have access to a powerpc machine, so rely on others to reproduce problems on this hardware, and propose patches). I can personally say that at least firefox 34.0.5 builds fine for powerpc (32-bit). I haven't built anything more recent than that yet, I haven't updated my 32-bit ports in what looks like 3 months. 32-bit firefox usually builds more reliably than 64-bit for me, too. The most recent Midori fails to build for me because it depends on webkit which has been updated to something unbuildable on powerpc. - Justin On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 8:44 AM, aggaz wrote: > Dear people of the FreeBSD-PPC world, > > in the last few days I played with FreeBSD 10.1 RELEASE PPC and an eMac > G4 1.25 GHz (PPC). > > I was able to install the base system without problems (and I add kudos > to you because other *BSD were almost impossible to play with (yes, it's > my fist tyme with *BSD)). Only problem (at first) was a SegFault while > compiling Xorg (the problem was actually Mesa related), but a very > friendly user of the #freebsd-xorg IRC channel on EFNet (called > dumbbell) solved the issue. He told me to add these lines to > /usr/ports/graphics/dri/Makefile just before the line saying ". if > (${OSVERSION} >= 901500 && ${OSVERSION} < 1000000)": > > USE_GCC= yes > USE_BINUTILS= yes > LDFLAGS+= -B${LOCALBASE}/bin > > > Thanks to him I compiled xorg-minimal. > > However, I was not allowed to use xf86-video-ati because it says that > the port is not PPC compatible, I installed xf86-video-ati-ums instead > (as suggested by another helpful user, called Avengence). > > Given that I was not able to compile any browser, I gave up, and > switched back to Debian. I am sad, I liked the idea to start using > FreeBSD, but I understand, nobody cares about PPC anymore, even Debian > Jessie is too much buggy. > > I just wanted to tell you that it could be useful to modify the file > above to help other users. > > Best regards > Francesco > > P.S: I am not subscribed to the mailing list, if someone will reply, i > would appreciate to be inserted in the "cc". > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"