Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 09:02:00 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@world.std.com> To: Bruce Burden <brucegb@realtime.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.2-stable, ports/packages in XF86 4.0.2 Message-ID: <200012311402.JAA20256@world.std.com> References: <200012310008.TAA22308@world.std.com>
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>Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 21:15:22 -0600
>From: Bruce Burden <brucegb@realtime.net>
>To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: 4.2-stable, ports/packages in XF86 4.0.2
>
>> 2. The Netscape Communicator 4.76 package (from CD 1 of
>> the 4.2 set) will not install, complaining about the lack
>> of a.out X libraries. The "previous" installation of
>> Netscape would not start, leaving a log message of not
>> being able to find ld.so.6 (iirc).
>>
> I find that I need to add:
>
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH_AOUT}
>
> to get Netscape to install and run. Since Netscape is still in
> the a.out time frame, I can see why it doesn't look for
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH_AOUT. Still, an ELF format Netscape would be nice...
Well, things work ok (for Netscape :) with XFree 3.3.6...
Both installing & running. Also, XFree86 4.0.2 appears to
have/install a.out libraries... (?)
But this still sounds like Yet Another Reason to ditch Netwcape...
>> /etc/make.conf has XFREE86_VERSION=4 defined.
>>
> This simply causes /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 directory and
> dependencies to be cleaned. Otherwise, /usr/ports/x11/XFree86
> (currently 3.3.6) is being cleaned.
>>
>> Ideas? These start looking like port/package problems... (?)
>>
> Did you install XFree86-4.0.2 from the package or the
> ports collection? I get compile errors with pthread and Xthreads
> when I attempt to install in from the ports collection, which
> makes it rather difficult to install...
I installed from the precompiled binaries from xfree86.org.
Alas, I've so far found almost *no* FreeBSD documentation
wrt XFree86-4... :-/
-kc
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