Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:27:52 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: dannyman@dannyland.org, kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netscape situation Message-ID: <199903110327.WAA42322@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <19990310211937.C27080@stumpy.dannyland.org>
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> > On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 09:03:18AM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > Can netscape be built from sources? I mean, the source are freely > > available, aren't they? > > > > So if one wants to set out to find the point where it crashes > > one could build a debuggable version? > > > > Did anyone go though this already? > > The original Netscape source doesn't include Java, and requires Motif. > > The new Mozilla project is allegedly coming along well and usually builds. > It's a lot to build, and it's a development browser - meaning it's little more > than a rendering engine at this point. > > If someone could advise on the best way of getting old aout X libraries onto > an ELF system, I'd like to hear it. I'm currently browsing with grail, which > isn't too bad. I like that it handles my existing Netscape bookmarks, > actually. > > -danny > > -danny > > -- > dannyman - http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ I put a bug in the PR data base on this; the aout X libraries shipped with the 3.1-RELEASE CDs have some issues. I solved the problem by grabbing the X11 libraries from a 2.2.8 CD (they are in the XF86bin gzipped tar file) and copying them to /usr/X11R6/lib/aout. At that point, I was able to run netscape 4.5 and 4.08 just fine. Also - you may want to know, the problem affects JAVA programs as well. See pr#10473 in the PR database for more details. - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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