Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 07:12:16 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> Subject: RE: One answer, one question. Message-ID: <XFMail.990128071216.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9901280927530.22605-100000@bragg>
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On 27-Jan-99 Kris Kennaway wrote: > What's there to compile with netscape? It's provided in binary form, > which means it's statically linked with some libraries at build time by > the netscape people (e.g. the motif library), and is dynamically linked > against some of the a.out libraries on your system (which means that > nothing changes in the binary because it's, well, dynamic). In either > case there's nothing to be changed by re-extracting the binary and > installing it. Nah, I was mixing two terms: compiling and remaking the port. I meant the latter, but saw when remaking that it wasn't the average source-like port. sorry for the misunderstanding... --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven It's a Dance of Energy, asmodai(at)wxs.nl when the Mind goes Binary... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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