Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 19:52:42 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape, 3.x, and -DWANT_AOUT Message-ID: <19990606195241.P30927@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <375A921B.AC90E8BA@3-cities.com>; from Kent Stewart on Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 08:22:03AM -0700 References: <19990606133056.L30927@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <375A921B.AC90E8BA@3-cities.com>
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On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 08:22:03AM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > Am I right in thinking that before I can run Netscape 4.x on a FreeBSD
> > 3.x system, that system must have been compiled with "-DWANT_AOUT"?
> >
> > Or does ports/www/netscape46-navigator work on a wholly Elf system?
>
> I have been sort of waiting for someone to answer that. I am running
> 3.2-stable and I didn't use "-DWANT_AOUT" in the buildworld.
Did you use "make world" from a pre-existing 2.2.x system?
I had a fair amount of cruft on mine, so I decided it was simpler to take
a backup of all my important stuff, and then install from a release I cut
myself. This release was built with NO_AOUT defined.
> There are somethings that need "compat22" and I don't have that in my
> kernel either.
Do you mean the compat22 package? I don't have that installed.
> BTW, mergemaster is a wonderful tool. I tried doing the diff thing from
> your buildworld write up but they were changing the system faster than I
> could upgrade it. There was something that didn't quite work right on my
> system during the transition from 3.1-stable to beta to 3.2-stable and I
> couldn't keep up. You have this "kind of" broken system and you don't
> know what these change were fixing and had to try them. Someone
> eventually told me about mergemaster and I found that I had a life
> again. What ever was broken was magically fixed at 3.2-release + 1 week.
Couldn't agree more, mergemaster is very useful.
N
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