From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 05:50:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A9BF10656A4 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:50:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from horst@sxemacs.org) Received: from mail05.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail05.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDCB38FC21 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:50:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from horst@sxemacs.org) Received: from [220.237.26.25] (c220-237-26-25.farfl2.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.237.26.25]) (authenticated sender horst.burkhardt) by mail05.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9A5nxhA022140 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:50:00 +1100 From: Horst =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Burkhardt III To: FreeBSD PowerPC ML In-Reply-To: <20081010055434.EJZ19575@dommail.onthenet.com.au> References: <20081010055434.EJZ19575@dommail.onthenet.com.au> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-3RjTx4cAUTTIF0CZJ5d+" Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:50:39 +1100 Message-Id: <1223617839.15248.231.camel@horst-tla> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Subject: Re: Apologies for failing. X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:50:03 -0000 --=-3RjTx4cAUTTIF0CZJ5d+ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 05:54 +1000, Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi Horst, >=20 > >- Get X > >- Get Xfce >=20 > You'll have to build these from source. Best to leave > overnight. Configuring the Xorg server is a bit of an > adventure, though there are a few NetBSD configs out there to > copy from. I've never had trouble with X.Org configurations thankfully. Also I'm starting to wish I had a more powerful PPC box - srsly I should not have to build ViM of all things ;) (i want my modeline back too btw) > >- Get SXEmacs >=20 > I'd love to see that running on PPC :) Last time I looked at > Emacs, there was quite a bit of build glue to get it going. > Too complicated for my patience at the time. I'm your man then. I work with the SXEmacs project. We already boast support for building on PPC/Darwin so given how much has been shared between the two it's not a huge leap to assume it can be made to work on PPC/FreeBSD relatively easily. :) Also, our build system is standard autotooled - aclocal, autoconf, configure, make, make install. It also has a Gentoo ebuild which I wrote (and which the project lead thought was impractical to do, but i proved him wrong haha) so theoretically it could even end up in ports if I figure out how to make a port. > >- Try and get the AIX/PPC binaries for Netscape Communicator > 4 to run ;) > Now, doing an AIX binary emulation for FreeBSD is certainly a > large task :) FreeBSD should already have AIX binary emulation layers ...=20 If not, anywhere else I can get Netscape Communicator in a PPC binary form that will run on FreeBSD? It's important that it's Communicator and not say Mozilla or one of the opensourced forks.=20 > later, >=20 > Peter. Thanks.=20 --=-3RjTx4cAUTTIF0CZJ5d+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkju7S8ACgkQRtTtv0BbTe6UEgCcCgI0MCWWsRhnUoOo7RuD9PpW +psAn0OP2ZL0Xl7zgUTgxEUPSBnZcd2J =v7El -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-3RjTx4cAUTTIF0CZJ5d+--