Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 15:03:40 -0700 (MST) From: Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net> To: Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@wxs.nl> Cc: FreeBSD alpha mailing list <alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mozilla on freebsd/alpha? Message-ID: <20021204145052.C20870-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.50.0212042227060.38399-100000@tsunami.bsd>
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On the HP/CPQ/DEC site where they have redhat rpms you can get a 1.0-ish mozilla rpm package, which you can run under linux emu -- that is what I'm currently doing on my alpha. I found the package to install by going to rpmfind.net and looking for mozilla on the alpha architecture... The one I ended up with was off HP's site, I think. (I stashed a copy of the rpm on ftp://ftp.clift.org/mozilla-1.0.0-9.alpha.rpm but there is probably something newer now) Some of the responses to your email wonder if the build has ever worked from ports - the answer is yes, it worked in the pre 1.X days but with the addition of the xpcom stuff, it has been continuously broken - something about our tool-chain generating different function offsets than the linux tool-chain. There was some discussion of this in mid October IIRC - xpcom is this nifty way to call functions back and forth between different languages and requires platform support for every platform that mozilla works on - they grope around in function call tables specific to each machine/os. I seem to remember that someone thought they could get it to work - this was just before 4.7-R was made and the hope was to ship with a ports tree that worked -- I guess interest in this has waned... - I eventually gave up and found that linux rpm -- if only there were a more up-to-date one... Shrug. Fred -- Fred Clift - fclift@verio.net -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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