Re: FireFox on PowerPC

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 03/31/2010 08:58 AM, Martyn Welch wrote:
> Gary Thomas wrote:
>> Has anyone had success building FireFox for a PowerPC
>> target - I'm using the development branch (org.openembedded.dev)
>>    MACHINE=efika
>>    DISTRO = "angstrom-2008.1"
>>
>> I've tried to build a number of different FireFox packages,
>> none with success.  So far I've tried 2.0.0.3, 3.5.2&  3.6.2
>>
>> Any pointers?
> This any help?:
>
> http://www.ppcnux.com/?q=firefox-360-community-build-for-linux-powerpc

Not much help as this is not OpenEmbedded related.  I want to build
FireFox using OE and currently it's broken :-(

Thanks

>>
>> Query: is there an easy way to build a particular package version?
>> What I've done is just add a line like this to my local.conf:
>>    PREFERRED_VERSION_firefox="3.5.2"
>>
>> Thanks for any help with this
>>
>
>

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