From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Dec 4 14: 1: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C015B37B401 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 14:01:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.oremut01.us.wh.verio.net (gatekeeper.oremut01.us.wh.verio.net [198.65.168.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35FAD43E4A for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 14:01:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fclift@verio.net) Received: from mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (mx.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.10]) by gatekeeper.oremut01.us.wh.verio.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404003BF2DC for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 15:01:04 -0700 (MST) Received: from vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net (vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.59]) by mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gB4M13322476; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 15:01:03 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 15:03:40 -0700 (MST) From: Fred Clift X-X-Sender: To: Marco Beishuizen Cc: FreeBSD alpha mailing list Subject: Re: mozilla on freebsd/alpha? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021204145052.C20870-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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