Hi everyone,
I'm kind of a sad panda today.
I was hoping to surprise you guys with some news about trying to build Google Chrome for Linux on YDL. I actually managed to get all the tools in place, download the Google Dev pieces, and pull a full source tree from SVN.
But - it won't build. And chances are - it never will.
They've limited it to Intel architecture only. It's hard coded in the source.
Why? Apparently, the key JavaScript engine - V8 - is written for Intel and is too tricky to compile for other architectures.
In a word - D'oh!
This doesn't make sense - wouldn't Google want Chrome to run on other processors? Like, wouldn't it make sense to support ARM at least, since that's what Android uses?
More info here:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ ... structions
and here:
http://blog.chromium.org/2009/06/danger ... lable.html
Read through the comments for the sad panda news.
So - sorry folks - at least for now - no Chrome for you...
Cheers,
Paul