From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 27 22:03:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA18913 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 22:03:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA18896 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 22:03:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.57.231]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA175F; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 07:03:41 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 07:12:16 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Kris Kennaway Subject: RE: One answer, one question. Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Feldman Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message