Fw: Palemoon

[Jan Beich]

Courtney Thomas via freebsd-gecko <freebsd-gecko at freebsd.org> writes:

> Greetings !
>
> Thank you for your work regarding palemoon for FreeBSD.

gecko@ doesn't maintain www/palemoon. Discussing it here is fine but
help isn't guaranteed. Better ask port maintainer or upstream.

> I have for weeks been unable to compile palemoon for FreeBSD RELEASE-12 r341666.

When was the last time it built fine for you? On which architecture?

> I read that a palemoon pkg for FreeBSD CURRENT-13 now exists.

www/palemoon package is available for aarch64, amd64, i386 and broken on
armv6, armv7, powerpc64. On -CURRENT after Clang 8 upgrade www/palemoon
no longer builds: xpcshell crashes during packaging.

> Can I use this CURRENT-13 pkg with FreeBSD RELEASE-12 ? If yes,..... how ?

No. Forward compatibility (i.e., with future FreeBSD versions) is not supported.
Try the package from 11.2-RELEASE instead but beware that due to ABI changes
to support 64-bit inodes and abstime in kqueue palemoon package maybe unstable
unless you install library dependencies from 11.2-RELEASE as well.

> If not, the problem with attempting to compile palemoon for FreeBSD RELEASE-12 is:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ~/www/palemoon/work/Pale-Moon-27.9.4_RELEASE/media/libtheora/lib/arm/armcpu.c 
>                      error:  "Configured to use ARM asm but no CPU
> detection method is availablefor "   " your platform [armv7,
> i.e. Raspberry Pi 2 Model B v 1.1]. Reconfigure with --disable-asm (or
> send
> patches)".--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

See https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229245

> Do such patches exist and if so, where can I download ?

See https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225279