From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 14:52:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marvin.cdf.toronto.edu (marvin.cdf.toronto.edu [128.100.31.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 124B11505F for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:52:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from g9genarc@cdf.toronto.edu) Received: by marvin.cdf.toronto.edu (Postfix, from userid 11592) id 11B654EC2; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 17:51:43 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <38751946.A472220E@journalstar.com> Subject: Re: netscape and compat22 From: Arcady Genkin Date: 06 Jan 2000 17:51:42 -0500 Message-ID: Lines: 36 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tony Wells writes: > Run /stand/sysinstall and select the post-install > configuration/distributions. You should see the compat22 option in > there. I think the compat stuff is for backwards compatibility with > a.out executables, but I could be wrong. Hi, Tony: As I said in my original message, I did insall that option. It just that netscape's port doesn't seem to see that. ;^( > Arcady Genkin wrote: > > > > I'm trying to install netscape47-navigator via ports mechanism. > > > > It tells me I need to install a.out support via installing > > compat22. I searched ports for compat22, found nothing, then > > went into sysinstall and found in additional distributions. > > > > But even after I installed compat22, netscape still complains > > about compat22 missing. > > > > What exactly is compat22 and how can I check if it is indeed > > installed? > > > > Thanks! > > > > p.s. On a side note, why would I install netscape for linux > > insteqad of the native one? -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message