Saturday, 12 September 2015

Re: [gccsdk] gccsdk 4.7.4, firefox, and arora



On 12/09/2015 12:51, Chris Gransden wrote:
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  Arora works fine but it is no longer maintained.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

Yes.. definitely interesting .. will it find its way into the autobuilder I wonder?


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