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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« Last post by carlosgonz on August 26, 2026, 06:35:31 pm »

I can not get compile nodejs, looks like big-endian is unsupported on openssl folder and maybe more libs.   I even disabled  asm on configure to advance. OMG : (

NODEJS It really needs  our superhero tle to re-enable big-endian.

R="/etc/ssl"' '-DENGINESDIR="/dev/null"' '-DTERMIOS' '-DXXH_NAMESPACE=ZSTD_' '-DZSTD_MULTITHREAD' '-DZSTD_DISABLE_ASM' -I../deps/openssl/openssl -I../deps/openssl/openssl/include -I../deps/openssl/openssl/crypto -I../deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/include -I../deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/modes -I../deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/ec/curve448 -I../deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/ec/curve448/arch_32 -I../deps/openssl/openssl/providers/common/include -I../deps/openssl/openssl/providers/fips/include -I../deps/openssl/openssl/providers/implementations/include -I../deps/openssl/config -I../deps/openssl/config/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm -I../deps/openssl/config/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/include -I../deps/openssl/config/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/crypto -I../deps/openssl/config/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/crypto/include/internal -I../deps/openssl/config/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/providers/common/include -I../deps/zlib -I../deps/brotli/c/include -I../deps/zstd/lib  -pthread -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wall -O3 -pthread -m64 -Wall -O3 -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-old-style-declaration -m64 -mminimal-toc -O3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer  -MMD -MF /home/ca71056042/Documentos/node-v24.20.0/out/Release/.deps//home/ca71056042/Documentos/node-v24.20.0/out/Release/obj.target/openssl/deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/bn/bn_mod.o.d.raw   -c
In file included from ../deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/bn/bn_lib.c:13:
../deps/openssl/openssl/include/internal/endian.h:29:2: error: #error "L_ENDIAN defined on a big endian machine"
   29 | #error "L_ENDIAN defined on a big endian machine"
      |  ^~~~~
make[1]: *** [deps/openssl/openssl.target.mk:1277: /home/ceres/Documentos/node-v24.20.0/out/Release/obj.target/openssl/deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/bn/bn_lib.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** Se espera a que terminen otras tareas....
rm 47a1ab3e9f3faad04b54e24199b1e2f8043672e6400dd0069e56a1fad8b1540c.intermediate
make: *** [Makefile:143: node] Error 2

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« Last post by tle on August 25, 2026, 09:15:12 pm »

nodejs npm still not available on debian sid ppc64 which Firefox-BE is asking on compile.

Yes i can access you to my powermac-g5.

You could use nodejs in the PPC64LE box to workaround that, the PR description has full instructions

please send me the access details via Private Messages

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« Last post by tle on August 25, 2026, 09:14:38 pm »

btw, https://github.com/runlevel5/firefox-ppc64/releases/tag/FIREFOX_154_0_1_RELEASE_PPC64 is out

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« Last post by carlosgonz on August 25, 2026, 07:27:22 pm »

nodejs npm still not available on debian sid ppc64 which Firefox-BE is asking on compile.

Yes i can access you to my powermac-g5.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« Last post by tle on August 25, 2026, 04:52:12 pm »

So i not get completed the FF_BE compile on PowermacG5 because missing a lot dependencies on debian powerpc, however i started the FF_LE test build on raptor-blackbird before to patch and build my favorite browser gnu icecat. I will report any news abouts.

Today also compiled gnu gnulinux 7.2 to test nouveau on 64kpagesize support, which still do not  work from promised 6.18, it just fixed the panic so no more freeze but still no video but i also checking if it need a special libdrm version on compile, just in case.

I have no real hardware G5 to test. However I could assure you that it compiles successfully on Debian Sid running in VM on my raptor blackbird box. Have you read the `Build` section in PR description https://github.com/runlevel5/firefox-ppc64/pull/2

If you do not mind, please grant me access to your G5, my public key is https://gist.github.com/runlevel5/82a44eefa9239b627605f86f3c337919 I will see what I could help

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« Last post by carlosgonz on August 23, 2026, 11:30:42 am »

ff153.1esr-LE compiled succesfully on blackbird. Yes is work and feel really nice and fast as never as before! thanks tle.
However my dream it to get success build for BE 32bit-64bit

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« Last post by carlosgonz on August 22, 2026, 10:13:33 pm »

So i not get completed the FF_BE compile on PowermacG5 because missing a lot dependencies on debian powerpc, however i started the FF_LE test build on raptor-blackbird before to patch and build my favorite browser gnu icecat. I will report any news abouts.

Today also compiled gnu gnulinux 7.2 to test nouveau on 64kpagesize support, which still do not  work from promised 6.18, it just fixed the panic so no more freeze but still no video but i also checking if it need a special libdrm version on compile, just in case.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« Last post by carlosgonz on August 21, 2026, 06:48:19 pm »

So i started compile firefox-be on debian sid on powermac g5 before patch and compile gnu icecat, so i get some errors.

 0:29.13 checking whether the C linker supports -Wl,-z,now... no
 0:29.29 checking whether the C linker supports -Wl,-z,nocopyreloc... no
 0:29.39 checking whether the C assembler supports -fPIC... yes
 0:29.49 checking whether the C compiler supports -fPIC... yes
 0:29.62 checking whether the C++ compiler supports -fPIC... yes
 0:30.01 checking what kind of list files are supported by the linker...
 0:30.01 DEBUG: Creating `/tmp/conftestkvp2dly1.c` with content:
 0:30.01 DEBUG: | int main() {}
 0:30.02 DEBUG: Executing: `/usr/bin/ccache /usr/bin/gcc -std=gnu17 /tmp/conftestkvp2dly1.c -c -o /tmp/conftestk9ytmc7_.o`
 0:30.03 DEBUG: Executing: `/usr/bin/gcc -std=gnu17 -fuse-ld=lld -o /tmp/conftest91jf37ot.out -Wl,@/tmp/conftest3ocvb5pe.list`
 0:30.03 DEBUG: The command returned non-zero exit status 1.
 0:30.03 DEBUG: Its error output was:
 0:30.04 DEBUG: | ld.lld: error: /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc64-linux-gnu/16/../../../powerpc64-linux-gnu/Scrt1.o: ABI version 1 is not supported
 0:30.04 DEBUG: | collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
 0:30.05 DEBUG: Executing: `/usr/bin/gcc -std=gnu17 -fuse-ld=lld -o /tmp/conftest91jf37ot.out -Wl,@/tmp/conftest3ocvb5pe.list`
 0:30.05 DEBUG: The command returned non-zero exit status 1.
 0:30.06 DEBUG: Its error output was:
 0:30.06 DEBUG: | ld.lld: error: /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc64-linux-gnu/16/../../../powerpc64-linux-gnu/Scrt1.o: ABI version 1 is not supported
 0:30.06 DEBUG: | collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
 0:30.07 DEBUG: Executing: `/usr/bin/gcc -std=gnu17 -fuse-ld=lld -o /tmp/conftest91jf37ot.out @/tmp/conftest3ocvb5pe.list`
 0:30.07 DEBUG: The command returned non-zero exit status 1.
 0:30.08 DEBUG: Its error output was:
 0:30.08 DEBUG: | ld.lld: error: /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc64-linux-gnu/16/../../../powerpc64-linux-gnu/Scrt1.o: ABI version 1 is not supported
 0:30.09 DEBUG: | collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
 0:30.10 E ERROR: Couldn't find one that works
 0:30.76 E *** Fix above errors and then restart with "./mach build"
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Package: lld
Version: 1:21.1.6-71+b1
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Source: llvm-defaults (0.71)
Maintainer: LLVM Packaging Team <pkg-llvm-team@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Installed-Size: 20.5 kB
Depends: lld-21 (>= 1:21.1.6-1)
Download-Size: 3,884 B
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports sid/main ppc64 Packages
Description: LLVM-based linker
 LLD is a new, high-performance linker. It is built as a set of reusable
 components which highly leverage existing libraries in the larger LLVM
 Project.

So i changed lld for bfd, like: ac_add_options --enable-linker=bfd which seems to work atm for compile.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« Last post by tle on August 17, 2026, 11:27:35 am »

https://github.com/runlevel5/firefox-ppc64/releases/tag/FIREFOX_154_0_RELEASE_PPC64 is out

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« Last post by tle on August 17, 2026, 12:23:42 am »

Has the JIT made it into trunk for ppc64le yet? I am starting to run into dumb issues with anti-bot verification, and would love to use Fedora's provided Firefox for simplicity.

No, it will take some time for the Firefox team to review the submission. For the time-being downstream distributions can adopt the patches as they like. From what I heard from Dan Horak (the maintainer of Fedora Firefox package) is that he will introduce JIT support when version 153 is out. It has not happened yet so I believe he might be occupied with other higher priority works.

Btw, what site did you run into anti-bot verification?