For ppc part I am in. Especially if Palemoon fixing doesn’t proceed much (it builds, but does not work yet).
Serge On Feb 19, 2025 at 17:23 +0700, Riccardo Mottola via macports-dev <[email protected]>, wrote: > raf via macports-dev wrote: > > > Without you, no TenFourFox on Intel and also no ArcticFox on Macs. > > Ooh, that's ineresting. I just tried to install TenFourFox > > on intel 10.6 and it complained that it's only for ppc. > > I'll have another look. > > officially, TenFourFox was only PPC and it needed 10.4 to build. > I maintained for a while a fork of it with Ken that did run on Intel > 32bit and it did build also on 10.5 actually and that was my preferred > build method, until I stopped working on it. I never got JIT working > again on Intel either and upstream stopped regular updates. > > About at the same time I started working on ArcticFox which now should > be about as capable as TenFourFox but faster. It compiles which recent > gcc and clang. > However, it is 10.6 and up only (best on 10.7 and 10.9). Help there is > also appreciated, since 10.6 maintenance is hard, since I am in the > domain of importing patches where Firefox removed support. > > 10.5 is not working nor Intel nor PPC, even if I attempted to make a > hybrid. If somebody is really interested and wants to help and hack, I > can collaborate and share patches, it could be promising. The idea to > get it working would be x86-64, then i386 then PPC (in order of > hardness...). I can get it to compile on 10.5 64bit, but it does crash > on startup. > > > Riccardo > >
