Requesting G5/I586/Pentium 1 mmx Linux Builds?

MozJF · Post by **MozJF** » May 7th, 2004, 12:51 pm

Known bug... This is why I left trunk code until this bug is killed. See this bug for more info : it breaks every trunk (mozilla, firefox and thunderbird) builds.

Bug 242768

ajax · Post by **ajax** » May 7th, 2004, 1:00 pm

Thanks for the great build I just wanted to know if there anything that can be done during the build to make it hog less memory and processor?

daihard · Post by **daihard** » May 7th, 2004, 4:44 pm

ajax wrote:there is a serious bug in your build the browser just closes automatically after it finishes downloading a file

I doubt the problem is specific to MozJF's build. Does it always happen when you download a file?

MozJF · Post by **MozJF** » May 7th, 2004, 10:58 pm

It is a bug related to some gtk2 source code support on trunk. One the nastiest regression I've ever seen in nearly 3 years with mozilla.

daihard · Post by **daihard** » May 8th, 2004, 12:26 am

MozJF wrote:It is a bug related to some gtk2 source code support on trunk. One the nastiest regression I've ever seen in nearly 3 years with mozilla.

Does it mean all builds are affected? Is there an easy way to reproduce it?

ajax · Post by **ajax** » May 8th, 2004, 2:19 am

Just download any file and after the download is complete thebrowser will disappear

MozJF · Post by **MozJF** » May 8th, 2004, 2:28 am

And under mozilla mailnews / thunderbird : just create a test message (you send it to yourself), and see thunderbird / mailnews committing suicide :[

istoyanov · Post by **istoyanov** » May 17th, 2004, 5:42 am

I would greatly appreciate a i586 optimized firefox branch build...

Yes, I noticed the link posted by MozJF, but the file was not available anymore :o(

Several months ago when my box was still running Win*ows, I requested an optimized build for my VIA C3 processor, and thanks to MozJF I had the best Firebird experience ever!!! Now I migrated to Linux, but my machine is way too slow to start building myself (if I had the knowledge how to do that), so I would like to request a build...

BTW, I am running Slackware 9.1.
According to this post the recommended gcc flags should be:

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CFLAGS=" -march=i586 -m3dnow -mmmx -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"

and

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CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu"

Cheers!

MozJF · Post by **MozJF** » May 17th, 2004, 6:06 am

I will do one based on AVIARY branch as soon as possible. It would be done in something like 3 hours from now

istoyanov · Post by **istoyanov** » May 18th, 2004, 12:07 am

HUGE THANKS, MozJF!!!

This build runs CONSIDERABLY faster on my machine than the official one (under Win*ows the difference wasn't that BIG)!

Just to note: When I first started ``./firefox &'' from the console, I got following output:

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istoyanov@eden[~/firefox]$ ./firefox &
[1] 505
istoyanov@eden[~/firefox]$ nsNativeComponentLoader: SelfRegisterDll(libnegotiateauth.so) Load FAILED with error: libgssapi_krb5.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
*** eeeeeeee = [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST) [nsIFile.remove]"  nsresult: "0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///home/istoyanov/firefox/components/nsExtensionManager.js :: ensureExtensionsFiles :: line 217"  data: no]
*** loading the extensions datasource

Otherwise it works O.K.

Cheers

P.S. Would it be a problem if I ask you later for such a customized build again?

MozJF · Post by **MozJF** » May 18th, 2004, 1:42 am

istoyanov wrote:HUGE THANKS, MozJF!!!

This build runs CONSIDERABLY faster on my machine than the official one (under Win*ows the difference wasn't that BIG)!

Windows code cannot be really optimized

Just to note: When I first started ``./firefox &'' from the console, I got following output:

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istoyanov@eden[~/firefox]$ ./firefox &
[1] 505
istoyanov@eden[~/firefox]$ nsNativeComponentLoader: SelfRegisterDll(libnegotiateauth.so) Load FAILED with error: libgssapi_krb5.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
*** eeeeeeee = [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST) [nsIFile.remove]"  nsresult: "0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///home/istoyanov/firefox/components/nsExtensionManager.js :: ensureExtensionsFiles :: line 217"  data: no]
*** loading the extensions datasource

Otherwise it works O.K.

First message is related to authentification code. You need a kerberos package.

Cheers

P.S. Would it be a problem if I ask you later for such a customized build again?

No, of course. Just tell me if you want a simple gtk or a gtk2+xft enabled build, without forgetting to precise optimization line ;o)

istoyanov · Post by **istoyanov** » May 18th, 2004, 4:19 am

O.K., MozJF!!!

Thanks again,

``see'' you later!

Cheers

darkonc · Post by **darkonc** » May 18th, 2004, 9:17 am

I have a build for RedHat 8 on 586/mmx...

the build, and the scripts that I used to generate it are at:
http://www.bcgreen.com/mozilla/

MozJF · Post by **MozJF** » May 18th, 2004, 9:58 am

A simple note : in order to get a clean build, instead of using :

echo "Building distribution tarball..."
if [ -f dist/bin/firefox-bin ]; then
cd xpinstall/packager
make -j3 MOZ_PKG_APPNAME=firefox MOZILLA_BIN="\$(DIST)/bin/firefox-bin" || exit
fi
echo "done."

Try :

echo "Building distribution tarball..."
if [ -f dist/bin/firefox-bin ]; then
cd browser/installer
make -j3 MOZ_PKG_APPNAME=firefox MOZILLA_BIN="\$(DIST)/bin/firefox-bin" || exit
fi
echo "done."

istoyanov · Post by **istoyanov** » May 19th, 2004, 6:08 am

After two days of really INTENSIVE browsing with the i586-MozJF-build, I noticed hat the browser periodically becomes quite sluggish, and the only way to get it back as fast as usual is to restart it:(

Since I'm browsing with multiple (10+) tabs open, the restart procedure is rather unconvinient -- I have to bookmark all the opened pages etc. -- so I decided to ask for an optimized (as the previous one GTK2+XFT) build of Firefox 0.8 (stable).

Or am I aksing too much?