Just a quick note to let interested parties know I'm working on a 4.0.1 firefox build for alpha. Frankly, the effort should be worthwhile: I'm impressed with how much more fleet of foot 4.0.1 is relative to 3.6.12 on my AMD K6-III/450, and I expect similar performance improvement on my PWS 433au.
Unknown how much of the "nsThreadUtils*" patching is going to be necessary to get 4.0.1 running without the "illegal instruction" faults that plagued the 3.6.X builds. I'm currently trying a stock build (only the historically needed alpha modifications): should be ready to test later today. Note to whomever: yasm-1.1.0 is required, and the latest available Debian package is version 0.8.0-something. If anyone is interested in updating the yasm package, be aware there's a build dependency on "xmlto": on my machine, that represents an additional 788 MB of packages I would have to download and install, just for the sake of having the yasm documentation available. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bob Tracy | "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit [email protected] | upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin | slitting throats." -- H.L. Mencken ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
