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Date:      Sat, 26 Jul 1997 00:01:41 -0400
From:      Rip Toren <rtoren@erols.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   linux-Netscape port install failure 
Message-ID:  <33D976A4.1243F2DE@erols.com>

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Like so many others, my Netscape 40P5 is about to expire. Having
received the "New Ports..." list from the
maillist, I saw linux-netscape 4.01b6. Using the URL in the mail I
downloaded the port file and had
the following result.

Running 2.2.1R (applied the  2.2.1 to 2.2-stable upgrade kit (last
changed: July 21, 1997)).
Downloaded and untared in /tmp
</tmp># tar -xzvf linux-netscape4.tar.gz
pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/www/linux-netscape4/
pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/www/linux-netscape4/files/
pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/www/linux-netscape4/files/mailcap

?? why the pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ in the path. If I had been in
/usr/ports
this would have made some unneeded levels.

move down to the first directory with a Makefile and did

<ports/www># cd linux-netscape4/
<www/linux-netscape4># d
Makefile        files/          patches/        pkg/            scripts/

<www/linux-netscape4># make
>> communicator-v401b6-export.x86-unknown-linux1.2.tar.gz doesn't seem
to exist on this system.
>> Attempting to fetch from
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.01/4.01b6/english/unix/other/.

Receiving communicator-v401b6-export.x86-unknown-linux1.2.tar.gz
(6364270 bytes): 100%
6364270 bytes transfered in 1877.9 seconds  (3.31 kB/s)
>> Checksum OK for
communicator-v401b6-export.x86-unknown-linux1.2.tar.gz.
===>  Extracting for linux-netscape-4.01b6
===>  linux-netscape-4.01b6 depends on file: /compat/linux/lib/ld.so -
not found
===>  Verifying install for /compat/linux/lib/ld.so in
/usr/ports/emulators/linux_lib
>> linux_lib-2.3.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system.
>> Attempting to fetch from
ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/LOCAL_PORTS/.
fetch: freefall.freebsd.org: Not logged in
>> Attempting to fetch from
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles//.
Receiving linux_lib-2.3.tar.gz (5133540 bytes): 100%
5133540 bytes transfered in 1906.5 seconds  (2.63 kB/s)
===>  Patching for linux_lib-2.3
===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for linux_lib-2.3
cannot open /usr/ports/emulators/linux_lib/patches/patch-aa: no such
file
*** Error code 2

?? the web page said the dependancy was linux_lib-2.4 , not 2.3

My /usr/ports is installed as a link tree to the cdrom. Looking for the
patch-aa gives

<linux_lib/patches># pwd
/usr/ports/emulators/linux_lib/patches
<linux_lib/patches># file patch-aa
patch-aa: broken symbolic link to
/cdrom/ports/emulators/linux_lib/patches/patch-aa

</linux_lib/patches># cd /cdrom/ports/emulators/linux_lib/
<emulators/linux_lib># ls
CVS             Makefile        TRANS.TBL       files           pkg

THERE IS NO patches directory.......

Another question is that this linux_lib-2.3 file seems to have new
copies of all libraries, as well as
things like /var/X11R6/... rather than /usr/X11R6

Is this just a lost cause, and we FreeBSD users just drop from the WWW.

Rip Toren
rtoren@erols.com




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