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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/16/2022 6:26 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> 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!

But are the build scripts good? So that if one
has the pieces, the disk space and the time to wait
for the build to complete then it just works (on
Itanium)?

Arne