Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:24:35 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Patrick Bowen <pbowen@fastmail.fm> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox on -current dumps core. Message-ID: <20060719012435.GC96589@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <44BD82D4.1000802@fastmail.fm> References: <44BADEC8.5030807@fastmail.fm> <86ejwkrh83.fsf@student.uni-magdeburg.de> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607170554040.29133@sea.ntplx.net> <44BD7DD5.9030406@fastmail.fm> <20060719004503.GB96589@funkthat.com> <44BD82D4.1000802@fastmail.fm>
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Patrick Bowen wrote this message on Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 19:54 -0500:
> John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> >Patrick Bowen wrote this message on Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 19:33 -0500:
> >
> >>Here's my situation. I drive a truck, and the truck stops have wireless,
> >>but no wired, and there's a secure login. So I have to have a working
> >>browser to get on the web to do updates/upgrades.
> >>
> >
> >why not get lynx or w3m (I know one if not both support https) compiled
> >staticly, and then you don't have to worry about the gui browser issue?
> >
> >
> I tried lynx from the RELEASE cdrom, and it didn't support https. At
> least not that version. Links does however. I'll look at w3m, also.
look at the lynx-ssl port...
> How do I go about statically compiling the non-gui browser? Just "make"
> with a knob turned on or what?
w/ a clean port I believe you can do:
make LDFLAGS=-static
but I haven't tested that.. building stand alone, you copy the cc/gcc
command that builds the final binary and add the -static option...
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