FreeBSD on eMac G4 1.25 GHz

[Justin Hibbits]

Could you give more details on the browser?  I last built Firefox
35.0, which I'm running on a G5 (powerpc64), but I have had some
problems building firefox off and on, for both 32-bit and 64-bit.  If
you are running into a reproducible problem, please file a PR at
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ and someone may take a look at it
(most of the ports guys don't seem to have access to a powerpc
machine, so rely on others to reproduce problems on this hardware, and
propose patches).

I can personally say that at least firefox 34.0.5 builds fine for
powerpc (32-bit).  I haven't built anything more recent than that yet,
I haven't updated my 32-bit ports in what looks like 3 months. 32-bit
firefox usually builds more reliably than 64-bit for me, too.  The
most recent Midori fails to build for me because it depends on webkit
which has been updated to something unbuildable on powerpc.

- Justin

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 8:44 AM, aggaz <aggaz at paranoici.org> wrote:
> Dear people of the FreeBSD-PPC world,
>
> in the last few days I played with FreeBSD 10.1 RELEASE PPC and an eMac
> G4 1.25 GHz (PPC).
>
> I was able to install the base system without problems (and I add kudos
> to you because other *BSD were almost impossible to play with (yes, it's
> my fist tyme with *BSD)). Only problem (at first) was a SegFault while
> compiling Xorg (the problem was actually Mesa related), but a very
> friendly user of the #freebsd-xorg IRC channel on EFNet (called
> dumbbell) solved the issue. He told me to add these lines to
> /usr/ports/graphics/dri/Makefile just before the line saying ". if
> (${OSVERSION} >= 901500 && ${OSVERSION} < 1000000)":
>
> USE_GCC=        yes
> USE_BINUTILS=   yes
> LDFLAGS+=       -B${LOCALBASE}/bin
>
>
> Thanks to him I compiled xorg-minimal.
>
> However, I was not allowed to use xf86-video-ati because it says that
> the port is not PPC compatible, I installed xf86-video-ati-ums instead
> (as suggested by another helpful user, called Avengence).
>
> Given that I was not able to compile any browser, I gave up, and
> switched back to Debian. I am sad, I liked the idea to start using
> FreeBSD, but I understand, nobody cares about PPC anymore, even Debian
> Jessie is too much buggy.
>
> I just wanted to tell you that it could be useful to modify the file
> above to help other users.
>
> Best regards
> Francesco
>
> P.S: I am not subscribed to the mailing list, if someone will reply, i
> would appreciate to be inserted in the "cc".
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