XPost: linux.debian.ports.powerpc, linux.debian.ports.sparc

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Hi Mike,

thanks for quickly taking care of this!

Unfortunately, your approach does not work, it still tries to use lld.

I suggest using my patch which overrides the default compiler for powerpc, ppc64 and sparc64:

diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index eb6dd1b73d0..6c46bcb9fec 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -113,6 +113,11 @@ ifneq (,$(filter mips%,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH)))
CONFIGURE_FLAGS += --disable-webrtc
endif

+ifneq (,$(filter powerpc ppc64 sparc64,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH)))
+ CC := gcc
+ CXX := g++
+endif
+
ifeq (default,$(origin CC))
ifneq (,$(filter-out bullseye bookworm,$(DIST)))
CC := clang

I have verified this to work.

As for powerpc and sparc64: Firefox can be built on these targets by using
the output generated by NodeJS on x86_64 and injecting the files there. I
am currently working on a mechanism to integrate this into the Debian package.

The idea comes from the Oracle Solaris developers which use this approach to build Firefox for Solaris SPARC [1].

Adrian

[1] https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/desktop/firefox/wrapper-node

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XPost: linux.debian.ports.powerpc, linux.debian.ports.sparc

Hi Mike,

On Wed, 2025-05-14 at 14:45 +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:

It actually uses bfd, which is why it went further than before. But it's
also using lld for things built for the build system itself.
Unfortunately, there isn't a configure flag to override that.

I'll figure out something that doesn't involve completely switching compilers.

What's wrong with using GCC? I built and tested Firefox on ppc64 and sparc64 using GCC without any problems. I also tried building it for powerpc but ran into an issue with building wgpu-hal (portable-atomic not being recognized
as a crate while it works with upstream wgpu-hal).

Adrian

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