Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 14:36:02 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Sujal Patel <smpatel@wam.umd.edu>, Darren Davis <DARREND@novell.com>, hackers@freebsd.org, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Yes!!! Netscape and Java for BSDI - Reply - Reply Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960401143527.14257H-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net> In-Reply-To: <5727.828201323@time.cdrom.com>
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My 2.2-current with netscape 3.0b2 works fine as well, runs Java apps no problem. Wish I could contribute more than "It works for me", but hell, it's another datapoint. On Sat, 30 Mar 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Ummm.. Something is wrong :) I get no Java Applets either (using a make > > install from Jordan's port)... Darren are you running -current? Jordan > > do you have Java working? > > This is very strange. I can tell you exactly what the sequence of > events was in my installation of that port: > > 1. Fetch the tar file. Contemplate unpacking and installing it by hand > but decide "no, wait, I might as well just create a port for this right > here and now instead." > > 2. Move the tar file to the distfiles directory and clone the netscape2 > port as netscape3 (the missing "fetch" step here is why I blew the > initial path to the tarball, which Satoshi fixed - whoops!). > > 3. Fix the new netscape3 port to DTRT for the slightly different structure > of the new port - mainly just change "hot-convert.sh" to "moz3_0.zip" > since the hot-convert script was gone and the moz3_0.zip file added. > > 4. Make install. Yow - it worked! > > 5. Visit http://java.sun.com and run all the applets there. Yow, they > work too! > > 6. Import the port. > > I'm running 2.2-current; I wonder if that has anything to do with it? > > Jordan > > > > > Here's what I found out: > > > > 1- moz_blah.zip is in the correct place, because deleteing it causes > > netscape to complain about it missing. > > 2- Java Applets attempt to start (I get subprocess diagnostics as always) > > > > > > Sujal > > > > PS: BTW, has anyone else noticed that the BSDI binary launches much > > faster- and maybe performs better than the Linux one? Do we demand page > > Linux a.out binaries? > > > >
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