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To: Craig Burgess <craig-burgess@home.net>
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Subject: Re: Of mice, XFree86, & Netscape
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Craig Burgess writes:
 > I tried several times but the build invariably stumbled over itself
 > with something similar to the condensed output textfile I'm attaching.

send-pr what you attached, along with the version of the port you're
using. 

 > > /compat/osf1/etc/svc.conf?
 > 
 > Um, "no" and "there is one :(Copyright (c) Digital Equipment
 > Corporation, 1991, 1995)"

Odd.  Mine is 63 lines long and matches the md5 checksum recorded when 
I installed the osf1_base port (as a dependancy of the netscape port).

 > Each of the many Netscape or Netscape Communicator ports I tried
 > failed, informing me that it was for i386 (BSDI, Linux and "plain"). I
 > got the Tru64v4 tarball from Netscape.

A large number of people have installed netscape from ports with no
problem at all.  Myself included.  Perhaps something was broken
very recently...

I have the following installed on my home miata, running 4.1:
<9:27pm>serendipity/gallatin:~>ls -1 /var/db/pkg | egrep 'netscape|osf'
netscape-communicator-4.75/
netscape-remote-1.0/
netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07/
osf1_base-4.0f/

 > The whole and complete point to the exercise was to see if the 500 MHz
 > Alpha could handle an inbound webcam stream better than a 300MHz
 > Celeron and so far the answer is "nope." (At 300MHz the PC easily
 > became CPU-bound but overclocking the celery to 450+ allows decent
 > webcam framerate without choking. On the Alpha one live webcam video
 > at 12fps drew 97% processor time said TOP.)

Probably a lot of it is going to dealing with XF86, which due to a
sub-optimal compiler, sucks pretty badly.

Sigh.

Drew


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