Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 20:13:03 -0700 From: "Internet Partners Inc. Support" <support@ipinc.net> To: "Mark Linimon" <linimon@FreeBSD.org>, <x11@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: ports/67951: x11/XFree86-aoutlibs doesen't install properly Message-ID: <004601c4662b$d04312a0$6bce4b41@tedm> In-Reply-To: <200407100245.i6A2jZE0066569@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Hmm, perhaps you didn't read the PR correctly? The problem isn't Netscape-specific. Netscape was used as a convenient example of an old FreeBSD binary. Other examples of commercial FreeBSD binaries could have been used as well, (ie: Billmax) but wern't in order to make the PR more comprehendible to the typical user that would be reading it. Perhaps your just on an anti-old-Netscape crusade because your own website logs are still showing the majority of your site users haven't upgraded to the newer Netscape versions and your just dying to use the animated gifs/flash/ midifiles/[insert latest stupid html geegaw here] that the newer Netscape versions support? ;-) Keep in mind that netscape 4.76 is a convenient "canary in the coal mine". If something associated with getting it running is broken, then commercial FreeBSD applications that are distributed binary-only and that were built using a.out are going to be broken by that as well. Anyway, as both the problem and fix (ie: don't install aout libs in an xterm) are contained in the PR yes it should be closed. But it would also be responsible to insert a warning in the aoutlib port Makefile telling the user not to install them while X was running. That is after all what the PR was about. Ted >-----Original Message----- >From: Mark Linimon [mailto:linimon@FreeBSD.org] >Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 7:46 PM >To: tedm@ipinc.net; linimon@FreeBSD.org; x11@FreeBSD.org >Subject: Re: ports/67951: x11/XFree86-aoutlibs doesen't install properly > > >Synopsis: x11/XFree86-aoutlibs doesen't install properly > >State-Changed-From-To: open->closed >State-Changed-By: linimon >State-Changed-When: Sat Jul 10 02:43:47 GMT 2004 >State-Changed-Why: >Submitter notes that the problem went away with forced reinstalls. > >Support for software as old as Netscape 4.76 is becoming quite >problematic at this point. I personally would recommend a much >more modern browser such as Mozilla or Firefox instead. > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=67951 >
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