Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:47:34 -0500 From: "Michael Johnson" <ahze@ahze.net> To: "Christian Baer" <christian.baer@informatik.uni-dortmund.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD? Message-ID: <b2203fed0701180747w20d8d14ft1633790115bca70d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <eoii23$nn9$1@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> References: <eoii23$nn9$1@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net>
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On 1/16/07, Christian Baer <christian.baer@informatik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote: > Greetings fellow computer haters! :-) > > As I have already written on the STABLE mailing list, I can't seem to > get Firefox to start on my Sun U60. Thunderbird works fine (as far as I > can tell after two days), but Firefox just exits instantly with a segfault. > > I didn't get any replies from the STABLE list, but I got a few ideas > from a German newsgroup. On of these ideas was that Firefox may not run > at all unter FreeBSD SPARC64. The reason given was that outside of the > common plattforms (i386, AMD64 and maybe alpha) much of the ports world > is untestet. > > To be honest, I find that a little hard to believe for Firefox. If we > were talking about some application that is rarely used at all, sure. > But Firefox should be quite common - one would think anyway. > > Well, just to rule out this possibility, I tought I'd just ask around if > anyone got Firefox to run on FreeBSD 6.1 SPARC64. > > Hit me with answers! :-) Firefox only runs on >= 601101 sparc64. > > Regards > Chris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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