Re: PTHREAD_MUTEX_ADAPTIVE_NP undefined in Gecko

[Riccardo Mottola]

Paul Sonnenschein wrote:
> For this specific issue, you should be able to use the patch available
> at the following Debian bug report for NSPR:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=970659
> (Alternatively, one might replace the #if with #ifdef
> PTHREAD_ADAPTIVE_INITIALIZER_NP as recommended at [0]).
> There also used to be failing tests in NSPR, but some (not all) of them
> were related to sem_open, which nowadays should be supported by the
> HURD.

the suggestion in the bug report works perfectly. I will commit into 
arcticfox.
However, compilation dies later on:

 8:36.88                  from 
/home/multix/code/Arctic-Fox/obj-i686-unknown-gnu0.9/dom/cellbroadcast/Unified_cpp_dom_cellbroadcast0.cpp:2:
 8:36.88 
/home/multix/code/Arctic-Fox/ipc/chromium/src/build/build_config.h:36:2: 
error: #error Please add support for your platform in build/build_config.h
 8:36.88    36 | #error Please add support for your platform in 
build/build_config.h
 8:36.88       |  ^~~~~
 8:36.90 In file included from ../../dist/include/nsISupportsUtils.h:14,


> Allowing a modern Gecko-based Browser to compile on the HURD should be
> a significant amount of work, up to and including porting Rust
> (allowing Rust to cross-compile code using only libcore and liballoc
> for the HURD should be relatively easy, the hard part would be porting
> the complete standard library and allowing the Rust compiler to run on
> the Hurd, I am a bit unsure whether porting liblibc is still necessary
> for porting libstd, if it still is, that would be an additional,
> significant amount of work).

The advantage is ArcticFox is that it is still rust-less, which makes it 
much more portable and easier to compile Of course "not so modern", but 
still usable and without the nasty distribution limitations of PaleMoon. 
For this reason it has users in niches beyond the mainstrem 
Linux/x86-64: it still works well on i386 and I recently restored 
MIPS-le and Raspberry3 support.
So trying the HURD is just logical and potentially a decent candidate 
too. If you HURD people already had some patches accepted upstream in 
Firefox though, I need to backport them.

Riccardo