Firefox for Solaris 11.4

Thanks very much, that sure looks like what I needed.  Just one question - maybe I missed it in the documentation but are these things meant to be run in Solaris 11.4 or in Linux for cross-compilation?

OK great.  I'll give it a shot.

Well this is odd.  Things were going fine until I got to this:

michele@hemlock:/scratch/clone/components$ gmake download

Generating component list...

/bin/bash: /scratch/clone/tools/userland-components: /usr/bin/python3.7: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

/bin/bash: /scratch/clone/tools/userland-components: /usr/bin/python3.7: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Generating component dependencies...

(I watched /scratch/clone/sparc during this.  It created two empty files called components.mk and depends.mk.  After three hours of waiting, I hit ctrl-C)

^Cgmake: *** Deleting file '/scratch/clone/sparc/depends.mk'

michele@hemlock:/scratch/clone/components$

I checked and indeed I do not have python 3.7.  Python 3.7 is in the components directory but apparently you need python 3.7 to make python 3.7.

And this didn't work:

root@hemlock:/scratch/clone/sparc# pkg install python-37

pkg install: The following pattern(s) did not match any allowable packages.  Try

using a different matching pattern, or refreshing publisher information:

    python-37

root@hemlock:/scratch/clone/sparc#

And I haven't been able to find it anywhere else.

So I'm stuck.  ???

UPDATE

I installed python 3.7 directly from python.org and got gmake download to start.  Now I'm getting this:

Source http://userland.us.oracle.com/source-archives/a2ps-4.14.tar.gz...

    downloading... failed

Can't open url http://userland.us.oracle.com/source-archives/a2ps-4.14.tar.gz

<urlopen error [Errno 8] node name or service name not known>

...

Source https://01.org/sites/default/files/page/pmtools-20071116.tar.gz...

    downloading... failed

Can't open url https://01.org/sites/default/files/page/pmtools-20071116.tar.gz

HTTP Error 404: Not Found

Cannot download the archives! Terminating...

A visit to userland.us.oracle.com confirms that this site is 404.

So does any of this git download stuff work?

Thanks for the suggestions but I've been there, failed to do that.  CSW only offers old versions of FF.  OI does have FF 60 but when I tried to install that I got

root@hemlock:~/Downloads# pkg install //openindiana.org/web/browser/firefox@60.8.0,5.11-2018.0.0.0:20190713T032125Z

pkg install: The following pattern(s) only matched packages that are not available

for the current image's architecture, zone type, and/or other variant:

    //openindiana.org/web/browser/firefox@60.8.0,5.11-2018.0.0.0:20190713T032125Z

And yet Oracle is offering FF 68.  HOW do they do it???  (BTW, firefox seems to have been quietly removed from solaris userland at some point in the last week.  That's odd...)

"Sorry, it was just an idea..."

Oh dear, I hope I didn't give the wrong idea.  I apologize and I greatly appreciate your help.  I'm just frustrated that I keep running into roadblocks.

"I am quite sure that the Oracle team uses the userland repository which I pointed you to."

Thanks - that's an important piece of information.  So then if they're not cross-compiling I won't  waste any more time on that avenue.  I have no problem trying to build a large project.  I've built gcc 7.3, Octave, QEMU, and OpenSCAD for Solaris in the past.  The hard part is just figuring out how to proceed.

"I cannot confirm your observation. When looking at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/desktop/firefox it still seems to be available at the moment."

Oops! I am very embarrassed.  You are of course absolutely right.  I completely forgot that firefox is in the desktop subdirectory.  I was looking for components/firefox.  Duh!  It's confusing because when you browse their web site, files and directories look the same.  Like I just found that cargo is under components/rust.

Hi Steffen.  That is both encouraging and frustrating.  I Unfortunately, I'm stuck with the free distro of Solaris 11.4 so I can't patch it.  I have this:

Packaging Date: August 17, 2018 at 12:42:03 AM

I have clang, developerstudio-126

but trying to get yasm got me this:

root@hemlock:~/aoo-4.1.7/main# pkg install yasm

pkg install: The following pattern(s) only matched packages that are not available

for the current image's architecture, zone type, and/or other variant:

        yasm

root@hemlock:~/aoo-4.1.7/main#

For rustc I have mrustc.

but nodejs wouldn't install from pkg install nor from opencsw, although it is in their package list.  So I'm not sure what to do at this point or if it is even possible.  Just wondering - if you actually succeeded in producing a Firefox 68 for SPARC, could I please ask if you might share a copy with me?  I've been trying to get this going for months now with no success.

UPDATE

Oh, I see now.  By your reference to nodejs I assume you built this in x86 Solaris.  I've learned that nodejs is not available for SPARC.  This may not be a game ender though since the Makefile for Firefox in Solaris Userland specifically omits nodejs as a required package if the machine type is sparc.