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Date:      Thu, 4 Jun 2020 15:01:54 -0700
From:      bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>
To:        Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 'asm/hwcap.h' file not found building chromium on Pi3
Message-ID:  <20200604220154.GA29223@www.zefox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20200604205218.GC53594@elch.exwg.net>
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On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 10:52:18PM +0200, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
> ## bob prohaska (fbsd@www.zefox.net):
> 
> > FWIW, www/chromium compiled successfully (and even ran, fitfully) about
> > a year ago on the Pi3B.
> 
> Well, a year ago it was not Chromium 83... What version was that? Their
Of course not! I was merely trying to make the question seem less absurd
8-)

Didn't keep any explict records, but it was probably chromium-76 or thereabouts.

> git interface isn't that great for picking out changes (but there have
> been changes to cpu_features.c, including a renaming, in the past)
> and versions; and I don't feel like cloning that repo right now, that
> would take quite some time and disk space.
> Seeing some of the work around that problematic code I think it should
> be possible to just #ifdef out the whole file or disable the ARM
> optimizations in zlib via BUILD.gn. But I certainly don't have the
> patience to build chromium on an Pi - I'd be afraid that the poor small
> thing would catch fire around 2% into the build, to be honest.
> 
Please be assured that the pi neither smoked nor turned into a pile of
cinders during the experiment. It does take patience, however. In the
absence of packages, there's no other choice.

> Regards,
> Christoph
>
Thanks for writing,

bob prohaska
 
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