Hi, ok, so first I'm going to do download the new images and do one or more test installations and after that I check the bug tracker if there is more I can do.
Thanks so far! Kind reagrds Nils Am 19.11.19 um 23:04 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > Hi! > > On 11/19/19 9:04 PM, Nils Meinert wrote: >> I just got me a Sun Ultra 60 and installed the Debian Sparc64 Port. I ran >> into some >> issues trying to install some packages (e.g. Firefox). > > You ran into the problem installing Firefox because of the issue described in > [1]. > >> So I was wondering if there is a way to support the Debian Sparc64 Port-Team >> in any way. > > Something that needs dearly fixing on sparc64 would be QtScript [2] but it > isn't > exactly trivial to fix. You can either fix the bug completely or pick up my > work- > around from [3] and fix the remaining testsuite issues so the package builds > fine > on sparc64. > > In order to get Firefox to build on sparc64, the Debian Firefox package would > have > to be patched such that the Javascript files are compiled in the arch:all > target > in debian/rules as to avoid the NodeJS dependency. I think the NetBSD > developers > have done something like that to get Firefox to build again on sparc64. > > Adrian > >> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html >> [2] https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-56264 >> [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=902635 >
