As in summary: On my systems (U60, U2, SS20; "2.4.21-sparc-r1 #6 SMP") mozilla-1.5-r1 builds without incident and appears to run. At least, well enough for me to post this from it. Full disclosure rules require me to point out that: 1. Right now I am using mozilla-firebird-0.7 for most things, 2. And I am about as far from being a "mozilla power user" as you can get, so I do not explore any dusty corners & unilluminated rooms which might need checking out. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~sparc' emerge -b mozilla 2. 3. Actual Results: It builds and installs mozilla-1.5-r1, and then mozilla-1.5-r1 works forsending you this note. Expected Results: Exactly what it did. Here's the information from the U60 I built it on for U60 & U2. ===================================== fmccor@antaresia:~ [202]% fmccor@antaresia:~ [202]% emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-sparc64-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.21-sparc-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.21-sparc-r1 sparc64 sun4u Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 ccache version 2.2 [enabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -O3 -pipe" CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb:/usr/kde/3.1/share/config:/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/:/usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -O3 -pipe -Wno-deprecated" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="sparc avi crypt encode fbcon foomaticdb gif jpeg mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls oss png pdflib spell truetype xv xml2 xmms zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex java mysql tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python imlib gtk qt motif opengl mozilla X ruby ruby18 tcltk tiff -gnome -kde cups bidi cjk stroke -oggvorbis -esd -sdl" ========================================== And here's what ecat says about mozilla on the system I'm posting this from: =========================================== ferris@lacewing:~ [202]% etcat versions mozilla [ Results for search key : mozilla ] [ Applications found : 5 ] * net-mail/mozilla-thunderbird : [M~ ] net-mail/mozilla-thunderbird-0.2 (0) [M~ ] net-mail/mozilla-thunderbird-0.3 (0) [M~ ] net-mail/mozilla-thunderbird-0.3-r1 (0) * net-www/mozilla-firebird-bin : [M ] net-www/mozilla-firebird-bin-0.6-r1 (0) [M ] net-www/mozilla-firebird-bin-0.6.1 (0) [M ] net-www/mozilla-firebird-bin-0.7 (0) * net-www/mozilla-firebird-cvs : [M~ ] net-www/mozilla-firebird-cvs-0.6-r2 (0) * net-www/mozilla : [ ] net-www/mozilla-1.3-r2 (0) [ ] net-www/mozilla-1.4-r3 (0) [M~ ] net-www/mozilla-1.4.1 (0) [M~ ] net-www/mozilla-1.4-r4 (0) [M~ ] net-www/mozilla-1.5 (0) [M~I] net-www/mozilla-1.5-r1 (0) * net-www/mozilla-firebird : [ ] net-www/mozilla-firebird-0.6.1 (0) [M~ ] net-www/mozilla-firebird-0.6-r7 (0) [M~I] net-www/mozilla-firebird-0.7 (0) ===========================
1.5-r1 running here too: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux sparc64; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031121 haven't managed to emulate ferris' moz-1.4x silent crash either... I opened this URL in a new tab and it wanted to save it to disk as expected ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/experimental/sparc/livecd/sparc64/gentoo-sparc64-1.4_rc4-08Sep2003-cd2.iso definately worthy of it's ~sparc KEYWORD, perhaps even a sparc in the near future. C.
http://......iso, not ftp. This belongs under #33750, but I'll address it here. The problem is not with ftp://......... that works fine. (for the silent death). The problem is when the user (i.e., me) screws up and is going down the http://............ branch. Mozilla (incorrectly, in my view) thinks that the .iso is a text file and tries to display it. (I would guess that this is because there is text at the beginning, and no otherwise easy way to classify the file.) In fact, if you (well, me) go down a path something like http://.....tbz2, mozilla notices it and askes for help. I'll try to clarify this under 33750, too, but you are never going to duplicate this problem if you are doing something sensible in the first place...:-)
I've been using mozilla-1.5-r1 for a couple days now at work. Seems to hold up ok. I'll mark it stable in 24 hours, so speak before then or forever hold your peace (or whatever makes you happy to hold (and no, please don't share)).
Marked stable on sparc. Thanks for testing :)
