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To: Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com>
Cc: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Netscape pkg silently requires compat22
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 12 Jul 1999 06:26:44 +0200
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Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> writes:
> The same thing happens with the latest binary builds from Netscape
> (which I presume the CD package is merely a repackaging of.)  My
> guess is Netscape is still using an a.out 2.2 machine to do the
> builds.

Not necessarily, but Navigator/Communicator uses Motif and there is
currently no Elf version of Motif for FreeBSD, so Netscape is forced
to build and distribute a.out binaries.

Netscape 5 does not use Motif.

DES
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