Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 20:19:19 +0200 From: aggaz <aggaz@paranoici.org> To: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on eMac G4 1.25 GHz Message-ID: <55281427.8090202@paranoici.org> In-Reply-To: <CAHSQbTDV9qr79F8dAXfNH-a4_NAAH5LDSVPQnTvTMi3zOjoSMg@mail.gmail.com> References: <5527EFCB.1000503@paranoici.org> <CAHSQbTDV9qr79F8dAXfNH-a4_NAAH5LDSVPQnTvTMi3zOjoSMg@mail.gmail.com>
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Dear Justin, I alredy deleted my FreeBSD installation and I can not be very specific. However I remember problems with midori, surf, vimb, and firefox. The cause of the errors were a mixture of compilation problems related to webkit, gtk2 and gtk3. Best Francesco Il 10/04/2015 18:20, Justin Hibbits ha scritto: > 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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