From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 6 11:55:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3952015719 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 11:55:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) id TAA27759; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 19:52:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 19:52:42 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Kent Stewart Cc: Nik Clayton , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape, 3.x, and -DWANT_AOUT Message-ID: <19990606195241.P30927@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990606133056.L30927@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <375A921B.AC90E8BA@3-cities.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <375A921B.AC90E8BA@3-cities.com>; from Kent Stewart on Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 08:22:03AM -0700 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message