[oe] FireFox on PowerPC

Martyn Welch martyn.welch at ge.com
Wed Mar 31 14:58:07 UTC 2010


Gary Thomas wrote:
> Has anyone had success building FireFox for a PowerPC
> target - I'm using the development branch (org.openembedded.dev)
>   MACHINE=efika
>   DISTRO = "angstrom-2008.1"
>
> I've tried to build a number of different FireFox packages,
> none with success.  So far I've tried 2.0.0.3, 3.5.2 & 3.6.2
>
> Any pointers?
This any help?:

http://www.ppcnux.com/?q=firefox-360-community-build-for-linux-powerpc
>
> Query: is there an easy way to build a particular package version?
> What I've done is just add a line like this to my local.conf:
>   PREFERRED_VERSION_firefox="3.5.2"
>
> Thanks for any help with this
>


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