FYI: iceweasel 40.X.X PowerPC isn't available for Debian PPC32

[Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de>]

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FYI:

On 07 September 2015 at 11:07 AM, Boris Reinhard 
[debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org] wrote:
>
>
> Off-list reply, please don't quote/ forward
>
> Hi,
>
> wrong list, please use this one if you want to reach ppl that do 
> active work on ppc:
>
> https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
>
> Come to think of it, it might be interesting/ helpful contacting 
> Cameron Kaiser (tenfourfox) and Tobias Netzel (webkit for leopard) 
> additionally, asking about how or if their ppc osx work could 
> potentially/ at all benefit linux ppc!?
>
> Grüße
> Boris Reinhard
>
> Hi All,
>
> Iceweasel was updated to version 40.0.3-3 for the unofficial Debian 
> PPC64 port. I installed it inside my Debian PPC64 chroot. 
> Unfortunately it doesn't start either.
>
> Note: Iceweasel and Firefox 40.X.X PowerPC aren't available for all 
> Ubuntu flavours and for Debian with 32-bit userland currently.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christian
>
> On 02 September 2015 at 07:38 AM, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
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>     Hi Lennart,
>
>     Thank you for your answer.
>
>     Unfortunately the increasing of the stack spaces wasn't successfully.
>
>     I tried the following stack sizes:
>
>     ulimit -s 16384
>     ulimit -s 32768
>     ulimit -s 65536
>     ulimit -s 131072
>
>     iceweasel Debian PPC64 in a chroot:
>
>     too much recursion
>     Segmentation fault
>
>     Rgds,
>
>     Christian
>
>
>     On 01 September 2015 at 8:02 PM, Lennart Sorensen
>     [debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org] wrote:
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>         On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 07:24:48PM +0200, Christian Zigotzky
>         wrote:
>
>             Hi All,
>
>             Iceweasel and Firefox 40.X.X PowerPC aren't available for
>             all Ubuntu
>             flavours and for Debian with 32-bit userland currently.
>
>             There are build problems:
>
>             Iceweasel 40 build status:
>             https://packages.debian.org/de/experimental/iceweasel
>
>             Firefox 40 build status:
>             https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/
>
>             But iceweasel 40.0.3-1 was released for the unofficial
>             Debian PPC64 port. I
>             installed it inside my Debian PPC64 chroot. Unfortunately
>             it doesn't start.
>
>             Error messages:
>
>             too much recursion
>             Segmentation fault
>
>             Is anyone working on resolving this issue?
>
>         Could you try what happens if you change the stack size limit?
>
>         ulimit -s 16384 (I believe the current default that you can
>         check with
>         ulimit -a is 8192).  Could even try something even bigger like
>         65536.
>         Then run firefox from that terminal where you changed the limit
>         temporarily.
>
>         Certainly with 64 bit pointers and 64 bit registers, ppc64
>         could be using
>         quite a bit of stack space in the javascript engine, which
>         appears to
>         be the thing that always causes this error in firefox (seems
>         to happen
>         everytime they change the engine in a major way, and then
>         things get
>         tweaked until it works again, then it gets broken again).
>
>
>


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