SGI: Development

updated:

neko_firefox-3.0.19pre.tardist
neko_fontconfig-2.8.0.tardist
neko_freetype2-2.4.12.tardist
neko_glib-2.28.8-11.tardist

ftp://3b1.de/diegel/fastfox

Just installed on my O2. Many thanks!

It is like a new browser.

Axatax_ wrote: ....I worked with David Dawes on the original XF86 server for the Millennium I and II while @ Sun. This was right around the time Glide came to Linux, and I moved onto this ( http://openut.sourceforge.net/docs.php ). I'm the "Jeffrey" guy. Anyhow, nobody was doing AA in any Linux GUI @ the time (either in the font or widget set). I'll give you the benefit of the doubt though.

I've often wondered how many of us are (or were) commercial Unix vendor employees. My first job out of college was for AT&T, back in the dark ages when they were still hoping to make an eventual profit from Unix. I think we all know how well that worked out for them...

vishnu wrote: I've often wondered how many of us are (or were) commercial Unix vendor employees. My first job out of college was for AT&T, back in the dark ages when they were still hoping to make an eventual profit from Unix. I think we all know how well that worked out for them...

Remnants of a bygone era...

Ha. I've got a couple reels on my office wall from the Encore system we used before we got the HP K250 (in the machine room, link below).

I think I have one (or a set of two) 9-tracks with 4.3bsd on it. IIRC I actually got the miniroot running on my 11/730 in 1990-91*, but the whole reason I got the thing was because the RM80 was throwing tons of bad blocks under VMS. A grad student in the magnet lab was using the thing as her personal workstation until that happened - I asked around and got her an 11/750 that another lab had taking up space in a hallway, along with a couple RA81s. Quite an upgrade...

I was surprised at even getting the thing to boot the miniroot, I had heard that the Nebula wasn't supported by any of the distribution/generic kernels.


* I had to run an extension cord so I could put the RM80 on it's own circuit, otherwise I'd just pop the circuit breaker.

By the way, I use diegel's rebuild on a daily basis and it is really MUCH faster than older builds.

Is this a known problem? I just upgraded from some previous non-optimized build of firefox 3.0.19 and got this:



I'm not sure if this is from the old or the new

duck wrote: Is this a known problem? I just upgraded from some previous non-optimized build of firefox 3.0.19 and got this:

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Removing orphaned directories
neko_firefox3.sw.eoe: ( if test -r $rbase/usr/lib/filetype/Makefile ; then chroot $rbase /sbin/sh -c "cd /usr/lib/filetype ; make -u > /dev/null" )
/bin/sh: syntax error at line 1 : `)' unexpected
ERROR: Command "( if test -r $rbase/usr/lib/filetype/Makefile ; then chroot $rbase /sbin/sh -c "cd /usr/lib/filetype ; make -u > /dev/null" )" failed (return status 2, subsystem neko_firefox3.sw.eoe 4)


This is the script to run the filetype makefile. It's only used for the icons. I don't see the problem here but I will check this.

mapesdhs wrote: Btw, what's the difference between the pre and non-pre files? And is one better off using
the slightly newer glib? (which I'm assuming is built with MIPS Pro instead of gcc?)

I removed the non pre build now. The pre build is the faster one. You can use the glib of your choice gcc or mipspro. I will upload the packages to nekoware beta after I checked every package again.

Ok thanks dude!!

Presumably, from what else I've read, trying to port any significantly newer version is proving very difficult, yes?

I recently had to stop using my Fuel for internet banking, which was a shame (browser version too old, now blocked
by my bank), and it's become increasinly difficult to use the Fuel for eBay stuff (inevitably much more productive with
a 5GHz 2700K). Would be great if a newer version could be done some day.

Ian.

mapesdhs wrote: I recently had to stop using my Fuel for internet banking, which was a shame (browser version too old, now blocked
by my bank)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefo ... -switcher/

it's become increasinly difficult to use the Fuel for eBay stuff

yeah ebay got absolutely awful. which is even more ridiculous given that all ebay has to show is a couple of tables. the current ebay site is a nasty example of how to bloat a page up for no reason at all

foetz wrote: yeah ebay got absolutely awful. which is even more ridiculous given that all ebay has to show is a couple of tables. the current ebay site is a nasty example of how to bloat a page up for no reason at all

You should try taobao About a year ago it was fine but oh no, the children running these nitwit places just have to add jumping bunny rabbits, flashing stars, popup "would you like to super-size that?" crap &c &c ad infinitem.

It really makes you want to slap somebody ....

I'd still like to take a shot at 3.6, at least, but my time is being consumed by TenFourFox (which has higher priority) and my Master's degree (which the job insists I finish). Perhaps I shall do this around the time my marriage to Scarlett Johansson is nigh.

ClassicHasClass wrote: I'd still like to take a shot at 3.6, at least, but my time is being consumed by TenFourFox (which has higher priority) and my Master's degree (which the job insists I finish). Perhaps I shall do this around the time my marriage to Scarlett Johansson is nigh.

I can prepare a firefox3.6 patch for you. The only thing you have to do is debugging.

Details, details

On the other hand no harm in generating the patch now, since nothing's happening on the 1.9.2 branch. The real money would be getting Fx4 up. Fx5 will be troublesome, I suspect, because it requires libxul (no more static or separate component libraries).

Sounds like key elements keep changing with each release, so presumably something a lot more up to date like V35 is totally out of the question.

Edit: just updated an Indigo2 to your builds, diegel. One minor note, had to update sqlite3 first. I guess a few packages have been updated since I last checked.

Ian.

You would not believe the amount of work getting it to still work on a Power Mac. And that's with the TenFourFox project being generally well regarded at Mozilla ...

ClassicHasClass wrote: ... that's with the TenFourFox project being generally well regarded at Mozilla ...

Is that like a thumbs-up from Forrest Gump ?