In article <55F3FF1F.8080602@macpcrepair.co.uk>,
John Ballance <jwb@macpcrepair.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Lee, and Theo and others
> Thanks for your work on 4.7.4 .. it built completely this time without
> any further patches .. thanks
> I built nettle using the mods given by Alan Williams .. they tallied
> with things I'd found earlier too. Would you like them as patch files
> or are you on the case?
> There are several things that also need updating try to build firefox.
> Again.. can I dump those on you? .. I haven't yet built firefox.. but
> think I have the dependencies all now building.
Even if you can get Firefox to build and run I don't think it will be all
that useful. It uses the 'Tinct' module which isn't ARMv7 safe. Firefox
will need to run with alignment exceptions turned off. It is such an old
version most web pages aren't rendered correctly.
> Similar issue in Qt and arora. Several mods needed.. not yet building
> here, but hopefully soon. I know its your 'baby', Lee, so don't want to
> tread on toes.
Arora works fine but it is no longer maintained. You may be interested in
Otter browser. See
https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/1/topics/3599#posts-46024
Chris.
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