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

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On Fri, 2022-12-16 at 17:49 -0500, 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.

Takes 12 hours to build! It only takes 20 mins on my mighty
threadripper. I really hope that VSI will make x86 OpenVMS AMD
compatible some day. 
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