Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:20:41 -0700 From: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> To: aggaz <aggaz@paranoici.org> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on eMac G4 1.25 GHz Message-ID: <CAHSQbTDV9qr79F8dAXfNH-a4_NAAH5LDSVPQnTvTMi3zOjoSMg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5527EFCB.1000503@paranoici.org> References: <5527EFCB.1000503@paranoici.org>
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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 <aggaz@paranoici.org> 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"
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