[OpenIndiana-discuss] Has anyone successfully built a new firefox on OI?

Fri Mar 6 11:08:58 UTC 2015

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Le 04/03/15 10:46, Jonathan Adams a écrit :
> Having compiled Firefox in the past for Solaris, the only way I could get
> it to work is with SunStudio ...
> 
> I talked to the devs at Firefox at the time and they said that SunStudio
> was the only compiler that had been used to get Firefox compiled ... I
> think the assumption in the code is that Solaris = SunStudio.
> 
> I know that some people have had success with different patches and
> versions of gcc, but I gave up.
> 
> Jon

Hi, just came across this thread (don't follow as closely OI anymore).

Firefox can build okay on SunOS with gcc, you do need to avoid 64-bit
for fatval reasons, I believe still... wrt 48-bit addressing munging.
(perhaps the new 64 bit dev version addresses that, haven't checked yet)

I have been using esr24 since quite a long while now on pkgsrc, and
have just gotten esr31 ff working recently (with shared xulrunner) and
am currently upgrading tbird/enigmail.

I'm pretty sure it's possible with OI/Hipster with appropriate tweeking.

My pkgsrc patches haven't made it into the pack yet, but if anybody
needs, give a holler.