Hi Jan, On Sat, 2024-11-30 at 09:34 +0100, Jan Montag wrote: > I am with you, > I tried to apply the patches provided by solaris, I tried to compile but > on the Powermac itself it lasts three days to compile with the end of > did'nt successfully compiled. I do understand now the problem of not > having the time or not having the hardware or to be frustrated because > nothing works.
I don't recommend using an old PowerMac for building anything as big as Firefox. Rather, I'd recommend either requesting an instance running Debian ppc64 (big-endian) on the OpenPOWER platform [1] or getting an account with the GCC Compile Farm [2]. Both are free for FOSS developers. > Meanwhile I tried to crosscompile that thing for powerpc64 on my macbook > pro m1 pro so it should go faster, but I always have problems with (I > think) big endian things. I'd suggest making sure first that the code builds fine with the patches applied. You can do that natively on x86_64 or M1. > Another option I thought could be to emulate a power8 system with a lot > of cores and to install also debian 12 ppc64 on this and compile there… I don't recommend that, it's just too slow. > I also think about power consumption of the POwermac G5 when he compiles > 3 days for nothing with both cores at 100%. Yeah, not really recommend. > Til this day I never had success to compile Firefox successfully even once. Firefox builds just fine on ppc64: - https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=firefox&arch=ppc64&ver=133.0-1&stamp=1732700057&raw=0 > I know that even famous Rene Rebe is not able to compile because things > are broken. Again, it builds fine in Debian ;-). Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
