Doesn't anything work around here?

[Kris Kennaway]

Miles Nordin wrote:
>>>>>> "cb" == Christian Baer <christian.baer at uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> 
>     cb> What *really* annoys me about this is that noone has bothered
>     cb> to mark the ports as "not working (yet)".
> 
>     cb> Why hasn't anyone done that with these (and possibly other)
>     cb> ports yet?  Thunderbird and Firefox have been broken for ages
> 
> sometimes there are reports of them working (a little).  but, yeah, it
> is reasonable to want to know, even before buying hardware much less
> compiling, whether this port has a working browser or not.
> 
> Isn't there some spot in the FreeBSD base system where you have to
> choose your thread library, and one works better on sparc64 than the
> other?  Is the thread library that works best on sparc64 set as the
> default right now?

There is only one choice on sparc64.  It is likely to be something 
within firefox (and related common code) since this is notoriously 
fragile on !x86.

Kris