From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 9 23:11:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from core.usrlib.org (CC2-861.charter-stl.com [24.217.115.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D483C37B422 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 23:11:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajh3@core.usrlib.org) Received: by core.usrlib.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BE65FA8DB; Thu, 10 May 2001 01:10:54 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 01:10:54 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford To: Chris Fedde Cc: Dimitry Andric , SolarFlux , FreeBSD Stable Mailing List Subject: Re: NS 4.76 instead of 4.77 in 4.3-RELEASE? (GRRR) Message-ID: <20010510011054.A12849@cec.wustl.edu> References: <200105092144390341.0156740D@tensor.xs4all.nl> <200105100428.f4A4SG801532@fedde.littleton.co.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200105100428.f4A4SG801532@fedde.littleton.co.us>; from chris@fedde.littleton.co.us on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 10:28:16PM -0600 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 10:28:16PM -0600, Chris Fedde wrote: > On Wed, 09 May 2001 21:44:39 +0200 "Dimitry Andric" wrote: > +------------------ > | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > | Hash: SHA1 > | > | On 2001-05-08 at 09:57 SolarFlux wrote: > | > | >Any more advice? I just want a working browser! > | > | Edit /usr/ports/www/netscape4-communicator/Makefile and comment out > | (or delete) the following lines: > | > | .if (${PORTVERSION} == "4.76") > | BROKEN= "Has a serious security hole, use 4.77 instead" > | .endif > | > | Then you can simply build all other Netscape ports (which depend on > | this one). If you cvsup these changes will be thrown out of course, > | so you might want to save a copy of Makefile. > | > | Also, don't forget to complain loudly to Netscape/AOL/TimeWarner that > | a FreeBSD build of 4.77 is needed! :) > +------------------ > > Or install a recent port of Mozilla. It's not perfect yet but it is > stable enough for my daily use. > > Good Luck Has anybody mentioned the linux netscape port? This is up to 4.77, and will run as fast as the native FreeBSD port of netscape 4.76. You don't even need to recompile the kernel; just load the linux compatibility module and install the linux-base package. If you want to build mozilla, and are going to use the port, I would recommend manually configuring it, to remove debug options and (if you are like me) the "Mail and News" crap. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@usrlib.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message