From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 10 19:29: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.vnet.net (smtp1.vnet.net [166.82.1.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2BA21520D for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:28:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp1.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA29904; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:27:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA05914; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:27:52 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.2/8.6.9) id WAA42322; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:27:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:27:52 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199903110327.WAA42322@lakes.dignus.com> To: dannyman@dannyland.org, kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE Subject: Re: netscape situation Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990310211937.C27080@stumpy.dannyland.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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