Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 01:10:54 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@usrlib.org> To: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> Cc: Dimitry Andric <dim@xs4all.nl>, SolarFlux <xulfralos@yahoo.com>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NS 4.76 instead of 4.77 in 4.3-RELEASE? (GRRR) Message-ID: <20010510011054.A12849@cec.wustl.edu> 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 References: <200105092144390341.0156740D@tensor.xs4all.nl> <200105100428.f4A4SG801532@fedde.littleton.co.us>
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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:
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> | 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! :)
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>
> 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.
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Andrew Hesford
ajh3@usrlib.org
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