Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:27:40 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Miles Nordin <carton@Ivy.NET> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Doesn't anything work around here? Message-ID: <471CF9AC.6090704@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <oq7ilfsp72.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET> References: <ffg2gk$1n1r$1@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> <oq7ilfsp72.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET>
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Miles Nordin wrote: >>>>>> "cb" == Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> writes: > > cb> What *really* annoys me about this is that noone has bothered > cb> to mark the ports as "not working (yet)". > > cb> Why hasn't anyone done that with these (and possibly other) > cb> ports yet? Thunderbird and Firefox have been broken for ages > > sometimes there are reports of them working (a little). but, yeah, it > is reasonable to want to know, even before buying hardware much less > compiling, whether this port has a working browser or not. > > Isn't there some spot in the FreeBSD base system where you have to > choose your thread library, and one works better on sparc64 than the > other? Is the thread library that works best on sparc64 set as the > default right now? There is only one choice on sparc64. It is likely to be something within firefox (and related common code) since this is notoriously fragile on !x86. Kris
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