From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 24 14:39:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12FA337B71B for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 14:39:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2OMdHk38884; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 14:39:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "David Kelly" , Cc: Subject: RE: Netscape & X 4.0.3 Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 14:39:17 -0800 Message-ID: <001b01c0b4b3$429ff9e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <200103242227.f2OMRSP84331@grumpy.dyndns.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David Kelly >Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 2:27 PM >To: go@dubkat.com >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Netscape & X 4.0.3 > > >go@dubkat.com writes: >> Hi, I'm trying to install Netscape Navigator 4.76 from the ports >tree, and >> it insists on installing some XFree86 3.3.3 libs. Is there a way >for me to >> get around this while using XFree86 4.0.3? When I do make >install, it gets >> to the build of XFree86-aoutlibs-3.3.3, and stops w/ an error like "There >> aren't any a.out libraries on your machine. Please install the compat22 >> distribution." I'd rather not have any old XFree86 libraries at >all, since >> 4.0.3 is working great so far. Any suggestions? > >Write to Netscape and ask them to use a modern FreeBSD. > Instead of complaining, why don't you go to http://www.mozilla.org and pull down the source code for the current version of Netscape and compile it up yourself? There is also a FreeBSD 4.2 binary that has bee uploaded there, at http://www.mozilla.org/releases/ Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message