Yes. Just in case you don't regularly check for updates to the Debian "unstable/sid" distribution, the long wait for a modern version of Firefox on the Alpha is over. For now... No idea how much longer Michael and I can keep resurrecting Lazarus. At some point in the near future, it will no longer be possible to build Firefox on an Alpha unless someone takes up the gauntlet and puts together a working Rust compiler. Considering how few of us there are who might benefit from the effort, it would definitely have to be a labor of love, performed by someone who does the impossible just because someone said he couldn't do it. Of potential interest are some build statistics for Firefox on at least two different Alpha platforms. On one of the Debian buildd systems (an ES45 with 3 CPUs and an unknown amount of RAM), the build took 11:13:17 and approx. 12 GB of disk space. On my PWS 433au with 1.5 GB of RAM (maximum amount) and 2.5 GB of swap (pretty much the minimum required), the build takes over 5 *days* if tests are enabled. Anyway, enjoy, and pass along your thanks and kudos to Michael. I'm pretty much done with Firefox builds on my local machine after this go-round. The PWS is too underpowered and otherwise resource-starved to continue down this road :-(. --Bob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
