Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 01:17:30 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> Cc: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape pkg silently requires compat22 Message-ID: <19990712011730.A42098@nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <xzphfnaijcr.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 06:26:44AM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907112300320.5610-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com> <xzphfnaijcr.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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> > My guess is Netscape is still using an a.out 2.2 machine to do the > > builds. Probably. > Not necessarily, but Navigator/Communicator uses Motif and there is > currently no Elf version of Motif for FreeBSD, That is news to me and Satoshi! ELF Motif 2.1.10 has been available for FreeBSD since before 3.1-RELEASE (Jan 1999). I guess you didn't realize that is what we used in building the 3.1 and 3.2 RELEASE packages. > so Netscape is forced to build and distribute a.out binaries. No, Netscape wants to maximize the number of FreeBSD machines they can run on (or they are too lazy to to upgrade their build machine). -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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