Hi Connoer, On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 10:59:47PM +0100, Connor McLaughlan wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > thank you for your time. This sounds a bit complicated for the newer > versions. > > Currently i don't know where to start. > I was trying to build the old firefox52 and thunderbird52 which run on > NetBSD/Sparc64 from pkgsrc and manually. The thunderbird52 exists on debian > and the firefox package did skip 52 and was only released as a 50 with > error messages filling up the console. I can get them to build with pkgsrc > and manually but some patches seem to be missing to avoid bus errors in > libxul.so on debian. > > Unfortunately i don't know yet how debian builds its own packages and where > to find the patches used in those builds, so that i could reproduce the > building of firefox50 and thunderbird52 to maybe learn something as a > starting point.
apt-get source <package> The debian specific stuff is in the debian/ directory, also the debian specific patches. To get the the dependencies needed for building: apt-get build-dep <package> Good luck, greetings Hermann -- Administration/Zentrale Dienste, Interdiziplinaeres Zentrum fuer wissenschaftliches Rechnen der Universitaet Heidelberg IWR; INF 205; 69120 Heidelberg; Tel: (06221)54-14405 Fax: -14427 Email: hermann.la...@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de