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Date:      Sat, 27 Apr 2002 19:05:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
To:        kris@obsecurity.org, rivers@dignus.com
Cc:        portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP! XFree86 has been upgraded to 4.2.0 in 4.5-STABLE
Message-ID:  <200204272305.g3RN5J185053@lakes.dignus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020427155756.A31446@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 06:47:19PM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> 
> >  Could the problem be that there is a missing a.out-style
> >  shared library for xlcDef.so.2?=20
> 
> It could be.  This is the old native version of netscape?  You said
> you installed the binary directly from ftp.netscape.com.  What happens
> if you use the port?  There may be existing workarounds for this (the
> a.out/elf thing would have been a problem for a number of years)
> 
> Kris
> 

 Yes - this is the version of Netscape directly from Netscape's
 ftp server... no port.

 I've never had this issue before - always been able to just
 grab the Netscape executable and install it.

 The way this was put together was (on 4.5-RELEASE):
	1) mv X11R6 X11R6.3.3.6
	2) ftp the XF86.4.2 files from Xfree86.org
	3) Install the XF86.4.2 files
	4) Install the X11R6 aout compatibility libs.
	5) ftp the 4.7 netscape executable from ftp.netscape.com
	6) Install netscape using the shell script in the
		netscape distribution.

 But - looking more at the ktrace output - this shared library is 
 the only one that is not coming from an aout compatibility library 
 (and, there isn't one of these in the X11R6 aout compatibility 
 directory.)

 And - this is odd - I looked in an a XF86.3.3.6 tree and
 couldn't find anything named 'xlcDef.so*'.  So, I don't know
 what's going on that's convincing netscape to even try
 to load such a beastie...

	- Dave Rivers -

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