firefox3 build fails on alpha

[Wilko Bulte]

Quoting Dieter, who wrote on Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:53:25AM +0100 ..
> > Thing is, ports have not been built on -alpha for 
> > ages now.  There is not even a working Alpha machine anymore in the
> > FreeBSD.org cluster for ports folks to test on if they were inclined to do
> > so.  ports have always been tricky on alpha, given the limited # of people
> > running FreeBSD  on Alpha.
> 
> I've been running NetBSD/Alpha for many years, and beaten a lot of software
> into submission on it.  I don't recall a single problem that wasn't ILP32
> vs LP64.  FreeBSD runs on AMD64, AMD64 is LP64, so what is the big problem
> getting apps to run on Alpha once they run on AMD64?  Yes, I know that

People willing to spend the time, do the work, test the work etc etc.

> hostility from the firefox people.
> 
> Firefox in the original Greek means "segmentation fault".

;-)

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Wilko Bulte		wilko at FreeBSD.org