[OpenIndiana-discuss] firefox 31.2.0esr broken?

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 15/10/2014 16:28, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
>> You know that you HAVE TO go to this page to enable flash  ?
>>
>>    > Flash could be used if first you go to:
>>    > http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/   and then flash would
>>    > temporarily work in a browser.
>>
>
>
> ... Look I am using the browser on OpenSolaris where they say they compile it
> and yet the flash plugin crashes! Forget what happens in OpenIndiana etc.
>
> if it does nor work properly under OpeSolaris, then it is broken! Is it so difficult
> to understand this?
>

It makes no sense, the Oracle firefox distributions are compiled
to work on THEIR modern Solaris 11.x versions, not the old 129a
Osol 2009.06. They compile with Studio 12.3, not Studio 12.1.
You would have to have exceptional luck if that still works on
an old Osol distribution.

about:buildconfig

Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
/opt/solarisstudio12.3.rsync/bin/cc 	Sun C 5.12 SunOS_i386 Patch 148918-07
2013/08/22 	-I/usr/X11/include -D__FUNC__=__func__ -xlibmieee -xstrconst
-xbuiltin=%all -D__FUNCTION__=__func__ -mt -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -xO4
/opt/solarisstudio12.3.rsync/bin/CC 	Sun C++ 5.12 SunOS_i386 Patch 148509-13
2013/08/22 	-xlibmil -xlibmopt -lCrun -lCstd -features=tmplrefstatic,no%except
-D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D__EXTENSIONS__ -template=no%extdef -xlibmieee
-xbuiltin=%all -features=tmplife,tmplrefstatic,extensions,no%except -norunpath
-D__FUNCTION__=__func__ -template=no%extdef -xannotate=no -mt -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED
-xO4

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