Date: Sat, 19 Aug 95 10:33:50 EAT From: Yen-Wei Liu <ywliu@lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw> To: lashley@netcom.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape -vs- uname() Message-ID: <199508190246.TAA08838@freefall.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <9508181534.AA29959@asimov.volant.org>; from "patl@asimov.volant.org" at Aug 18, 95 8:34 am
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> I'm running the BSDi version of Netscape 1.1 on FreeBSD 2.0.5.
> It seems to be working fine, but when started, it reports:
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> netscape: uname() failed; can't tell what system
> we're running on
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> I suspect that both problems are caused by static linking to
> a bad/incompatible libraries...
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Just a wild guess : uname on FreeBSD 2.0[5]R has some bugs. Struct utsname
would be corrupted after calling uname(). It was fixed within last month.
It sounds like why Netscape doesn't work.
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