Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:18:25 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@bayouhome.net> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>, jfreeze@qx.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape6 on 3.4R Message-ID: <20000418091825.A698@gforce.johnson.home> In-Reply-To: <20000418180755.C4428@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 06:07:55PM %2B0530 References: <77363754337.AAA74B7@mail2.qx.net> <20000418142529.J36881@draenor.org> <20000418180755.C4428@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 06:07:55PM +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > Checkout /usr/ports/www/linux-netscape6 -- you can install it from > > there. Pain free. :) > > Does it work on 3.4R? For me (3.4 Stable) it crashes with a floating > point exception. Someone else reported the same thing on -chat, but > someone said it works on 4.0R. This would be because FreeBSD 4.0 masks floating point exceptions by default but FreeBSD < 4.0 traps on floating point exceptions by default. If you have the source you can edit /usr/src/sys/i386/include/npx.h on your FreeBSD 3.4 system. The comments in the file will tell you what to do. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@bayouhome.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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