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Date:      12 Jul 1999 06:26:44 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com>
Cc:        Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape pkg silently requires compat22
Message-ID:  <xzphfnaijcr.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Matt Behrens's message of "Sun, 11 Jul 1999 23:01:36 -0400 (EDT)"
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907112300320.5610-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com>

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Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> writes:
> The same thing happens with the latest binary builds from Netscape
> (which I presume the CD package is merely a repackaging of.)  My
> guess is Netscape is still using an a.out 2.2 machine to do the
> builds.

Not necessarily, but Navigator/Communicator uses Motif and there is
currently no Elf version of Motif for FreeBSD, so Netscape is forced
to build and distribute a.out binaries.

Netscape 5 does not use Motif.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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