[Info-vax] old Firefox port (was: Re: Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/16/2022 5:49 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2022-12-16 21:13:14 +0000, Mark Berryman said:
>> When I get a little time I am going to try to build the old Firefox 
>> kit on IA64.  If that works, I will try to build it for x86.
> 
> For those following along at home, Firefox source code for the V2.0-18 
> OpenVMS I64 port, and porting-related docs:
> 
> https://web.archive.org/web/20130208121115/http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/ips/firefox/fwb_source.html
> 
> FWB_I64_V2018SOURCE.SFX_I64EXE is available there.

It links to ftp.hp.com and it seems to reject connections.

:-(

But maybe it will work later.

Anyway the page has a list of prerequisites:

<quote>
Software Prerequisites and Configuration

System Software

The following system software is required:

     OpenVMS V8.2-1 or higher
     HP C V7.1 or higher
     HP C++ V7.2 or higher
     GNV V1.6-2 or later
     Perl V5.8 or later
     Build GTK, OPL, LIBIDL from sources (links are provided above)
     ODS-5 disk

Account Quotas

The build account should have the following quotas as a minimum:

     Maxjobs:      0  Fillm:    5000  Bytlm:   20000000
     Maxacctjobs:  0  Shrfillm:    0  Pbytlm:         0
     Maxdetach:    0  BIOlm:     500  JTquota:     4096
     Prclm:       50  DIOlm:     500  WSdef:    1000000
     Prio:         4  ASTlm:     500  WSquo:    1000000
     Queprio:      4  TQElm:     200  WSextent: 1000000
     CPU:      (none) Enqlm:    3000  Pgflquo:  7000000

Disk Space

In addition to the disk space requirements for the prerequisite 
software, the following is also required:

     500,000(confirm the block size) blocks for the source code area
     6,841,724 (confirm the block size) blocks for a non-debug build 
area and/or 10,418,680 blocks for a debug area
</quote>

The space requirements for OBJ+EXE are let us say "interesting".

Arne