Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1995 14:32:13 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting linux netscape binary to work? Message-ID: <20791.818289133@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Dec 1995 08:46:57 CST." <199512061446.IAA25559@jake.lodgenet.com>
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We REALLY REALLY need to document this stuff somewhere! I'm just this minute sitting in a talk session from someone who is full of questions about how to use the linux emulator, and I just finished answering the same questions on USENET. Handbook chapter on emulation, pleeeeze somebody? I'm already working on a major revamp of chapter 17 so I don't have time myself.. Jordan > "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > >Someone (Soren?) posted something recently about how to make the Linux > >version of netscape work properly with the 2.1 Linux emulator. Could > >you refresh my memory? I searched the mailing list archives but could > >only find Brian's question and Eric's answer (which consisted of > >moving /etc/host.conf out of the way - not really the answer I was > >looking for :-). > > The New and Improved answer is to set an environment variable > to point to the proper host.conf. My netscape shell script looks > like: > > #!/bin/sh > export RESOLV_HOST_CONF; RESOLV_HOST_CONF=/compat/linux/etc/host.conf > export XKEYSYMDB ; XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB > export XNLSPATH ; XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls > export XAPPLRESDIR ; XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults > exec /usr/local/lib/netscape/netscape.linux.bin $* > > and you've gotta put moz2_0.car in /usr/local/netscape/java/classes/ > (but you already knew that from the README) > > Now the biggest problem I see is that my syslog fills up with: > Linux-emul(17199): syslog() not supported (BSD sigreturn) > > > > > Jordan > > eric. > -- > erich@lodgenet.com > erich@rrnet.com >
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