On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 11:16:45AM +0000, m...@netbsd.org wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 10:49:58AM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote: > > > > m...@netbsd.org wrote: > > >On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 08:41:49AM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote: > > >> On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:05:57 -0700 > > >> bch <brad.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> > I quit running Firefox on my (-current) laptop months ago because the > > >> > build process (rust, esp) was so brutal. Have there been any > > >> > community efforts to organize the build artifacts from bleeding-edge > > >> > environments to avoid repeating (and failing, in my case) this most > > >> > horrible build? > > >> > > >> What's the alternative, I've not used NetBSD for desktop tasks for a > > >> while now, but I wish recent Opera browser was available for NetBSD. I > > >> suppose you could run it with Linux emulation, but not sure how well it > > >> works on NetBSD. Last time I tried, which was years ago, there were > > >> some display issues, i.e. scrolling text up/down would produce these > > >> annoying lagging artefacts, etc. > > > > > >Firefox works great. The discussion here isn't about firefox being > > >broken on netbsd, it's being broken across an update. That usually > > >happens due to some kind of binary incompatibility being introduced. > > > > I'm not sure this is down to a binary incompatibility. > > > > I started seeing the same thing recently too even when Firefox and all > > its dependencies have been rebuilt from source. > > > > Google Maps triggers it for me. > > You've also stated that glxgears crashes, so it might be the same > problem. Are you building netbsd in a special way?
I've also had problems with firefox on netbsd-8; I had the same problems with a netbsd-8 binary on a -9 systems. I suspect it's related to X11 DRI libraries. -- Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --