Paul Sonnenschein wrote:
For this specific issue, you should be able to use the patch available
at the following Debian bug report for NSPR:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=970659
(Alternatively, one might replace the #if with #ifdef
PTHREAD_ADAPTIVE_INITIALIZER_NP as recommended at [0]).
There also used to be failing tests in NSPR, but some (not all) of them
were related to sem_open, which nowadays should be supported by the
HURD.
the suggestion in the bug report works perfectly. I will commit into
arcticfox.
However, compilation dies later on:
8:36.88 from
/home/multix/code/Arctic-Fox/obj-i686-unknown-gnu0.9/dom/cellbroadcast/Unified_cpp_dom_cellbroadcast0.cpp:2:
8:36.88
/home/multix/code/Arctic-Fox/ipc/chromium/src/build/build_config.h:36:2:
error: #error Please add support for your platform in build/build_config.h
8:36.88 36 | #error Please add support for your platform in
build/build_config.h
8:36.88 | ^~~~~
8:36.90 In file included from ../../dist/include/nsISupportsUtils.h:14,
Allowing a modern Gecko-based Browser to compile on the HURD should be
a significant amount of work, up to and including porting Rust
(allowing Rust to cross-compile code using only libcore and liballoc
for the HURD should be relatively easy, the hard part would be porting
the complete standard library and allowing the Rust compiler to run on
the Hurd, I am a bit unsure whether porting liblibc is still necessary
for porting libstd, if it still is, that would be an additional,
significant amount of work).
The advantage is ArcticFox is that it is still rust-less, which makes it
much more portable and easier to compile Of course "not so modern", but
still usable and without the nasty distribution limitations of PaleMoon.
For this reason it has users in niches beyond the mainstrem
Linux/x86-64: it still works well on i386 and I recently restored
MIPS-le and Raspberry3 support.
So trying the HURD is just logical and potentially a decent candidate
too. If you HURD people already had some patches accepted upstream in
Firefox though, I need to backport them.
Riccardo
