From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 28 19:26:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C8D37B9E1; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:26:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA05553; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:26:28 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:26:28 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price To: Jeremy Lea Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/17062: 4.0-20000214-CURRENT: navigator-4.7 port misses X libraries In-Reply-To: <20000228192224.B54218@shale.csir.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Jeremy Lea wrote: # I've been thinking... Can we make a binary package of old 2.2.8 a.out X # libs and put them somewhere and then make a port of them. That way they # will appear in a PLIST, we can depend on them, and we can remove some # complexity (and time) from the XFree86 build. # # Also, I'm beginning to think that some of the instability in Netscape # 4.7 is due to having newer libraries than were used for compiling. 4.72 seems to require the latest set of libraries from 3.3.6 just in the a.out format. # If someone has libraries, I'll make a port. I like this idea! Give me a few minutes and I'll have a fresh set built that you can have. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message