FYI: iceweasel 40.X.X PowerPC isn't available for Debian PPC32

FYI:

On 07 September 2015 at 11:07 AM, Boris Reinhard 
[debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org] wrote:

Off-list reply, please don't quote/ forward

Hi,

wrong list, please use this one if you want to reach ppl that do 
active work on ppc:

https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev

Come to think of it, it might be interesting/ helpful contacting 
Cameron Kaiser (tenfourfox) and Tobias Netzel (webkit for leopard) 
additionally, asking about how or if their ppc osx work could 
potentially/ at all benefit linux ppc!?

Grüße
Boris Reinhard

Hi All,

Iceweasel was updated to version 40.0.3-3 for the unofficial Debian 
PPC64 port. I installed it inside my Debian PPC64 chroot. 
Unfortunately it doesn't start either.

Note: Iceweasel and Firefox 40.X.X PowerPC aren't available for all 
Ubuntu flavours and for Debian with 32-bit userland currently.

Cheers,

Christian

On 02 September 2015 at 07:38 AM, Christian Zigotzky wrote:

    Hi Lennart,

    Thank you for your answer.

    Unfortunately the increasing of the stack spaces wasn't successfully.

    I tried the following stack sizes:

    ulimit -s 16384
    ulimit -s 32768
    ulimit -s 65536
    ulimit -s 131072

    iceweasel Debian PPC64 in a chroot:

    too much recursion
    Segmentation fault

    Rgds,

    Christian


    On 01 September 2015 at 8:02 PM, Lennart Sorensen
    [debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org] wrote:

        On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 07:24:48PM +0200, Christian Zigotzky
        wrote:

            Hi All,

            Iceweasel and Firefox 40.X.X PowerPC aren't available for
            all Ubuntu
            flavours and for Debian with 32-bit userland currently.

            There are build problems:

            Iceweasel 40 build status:
            https://packages.debian.org/de/experimental/iceweasel

            Firefox 40 build status:
            https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/

            But iceweasel 40.0.3-1 was released for the unofficial
            Debian PPC64 port. I
            installed it inside my Debian PPC64 chroot. Unfortunately
            it doesn't start.

            Error messages:

            too much recursion
            Segmentation fault

            Is anyone working on resolving this issue?

        Could you try what happens if you change the stack size limit?

        ulimit -s 16384 (I believe the current default that you can
        check with
        ulimit -a is 8192).  Could even try something even bigger like
        65536.
        Then run firefox from that terminal where you changed the limit
        temporarily.

        Certainly with 64 bit pointers and 64 bit registers, ppc64
        could be using
        quite a bit of stack space in the javascript engine, which
        appears to
        be the thing that always causes this error in firefox (seems
        to happen
        everytime they change the engine in a major way, and then
        things get
        tweaked until it works again, then it gets broken again).