On 8/17/20 9:42 PM, Michael Cree wrote: >> As I posted last month, my old version of iceweasel was deleted by apt. >> I downloaded the deb file for firefox 52.6 alpha, but when trying to install >> I get the following errors: > > I doubt if we ever will have firefox built on Alpha again. It now > depends on the rust compiler which depends on LLVM, which does not > support Alpha and it would be a major piece of work to implement.
I don't think rustc will be the only Rust compiler in the foreseeable future as there are two gcc-based [1, 2] and one freestanding approach [3] in development. Adrian > [1] https://github.com/philberty/gccrs/ > [2] https://github.com/sapir/gcc-rust > [3] https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
