From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 18 7:19:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.millennium20.com (smtp.thecyberguys.net [209.79.190.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFEFF37B86F for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 07:19:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glennpj@bayouhome.net) Received: from gforce.johnson.home (1Cust119.tnt2.covington.la.da.uu.net [63.31.31.119]) by smtp.millennium20.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with SMTP id e3IEHt626204; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 07:17:56 -0700 Received: (from glenn@localhost) by gforce.johnson.home (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA00773; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:19:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glenn) From: Glenn Johnson Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:18:25 -0500 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Marc Silver , jfreeze@qx.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape6 on 3.4R Message-ID: <20000418091825.A698@gforce.johnson.home> References: <77363754337.AAA74B7@mail2.qx.net> <20000418142529.J36881@draenor.org> <20000418180755.C4428@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000418180755.C4428@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 06:07:55PM +0530 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 06:07:55PM +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > Checkout /usr/ports/www/linux-netscape6 -- you can install it from > > there. Pain free. :) > > Does it work on 3.4R? For me (3.4 Stable) it crashes with a floating > point exception. Someone else reported the same thing on -chat, but > someone said it works on 4.0R. This would be because FreeBSD 4.0 masks floating point exceptions by default but FreeBSD < 4.0 traps on floating point exceptions by default. If you have the source you can edit /usr/src/sys/i386/include/npx.h on your FreeBSD 3.4 system. The comments in the file will tell you what to do. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@bayouhome.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message