From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 3 19:55:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA07253 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 19:55:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA07246 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 19:55:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id MAA17378; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 12:25:10 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708040255.MAA17378@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: netscape 4.02b7 In-Reply-To: <19970803222730.57163@wakky.dyn.ml.org> from Lee Cremeans at "Aug 3, 97 10:27:30 pm" To: hcremean@vt.edu Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 12:25:10 +0930 (CST) Cc: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Lee Cremeans stands accused of saying: > > Hrmmm...I did some testing, and there's good news and bad news. The good > news is that 4.02b7/FreeBSD does support plugins; the bad news is that > they have to be in our object format...our ld.so doesn't grok Linux > objects. :( That's not terribly surprising, or really an issue to me at least 8) Having said that, some enterprising Netscape-loving hacker could try writing a shim for this 8) > Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[