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Date:      Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:08:02 -0700
From:      Craig Burgess <craig-burgess@home.net>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        FreeBSD-alpha mailing list <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Of mice, XFree86, & Netscape
Message-ID:  <39F79202.2A315F40@home.net>
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David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 10:26:02AM -0700, Craig Burgess wrote:
> > Each of the many Netscape or Netscape Communicator ports I tried
> > failed, informing me that it was for i386 (BSDI, Linux and "plain").
> 
> Can you post *complete* output of trying to use them?  Are you sure your
> /usr/ports is upto date?
> 
> --
> -- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
>           GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX


Um - Okay. (I've been having waaaaay too much fun.) Lest I forget,
thank you for taking an interest in this. I appreciate the guidance.
(I still wear training wheels.)

First (new question) - KDE includes some system reporting utilities of
which I know nothing. I did find a reported number to be very curious: 

  Digital AlphaPC 164 500 MHz running at 301.97MHz

Is there any chance that KDE's processor-reporting is accurate?  Is
there a(n easy) way to check processor speed?

Back to Netscape/X-windows fun -- 

I did not originally install NSCommunicator from ports (listed below).
I apparently didn't try the right selection because I kept failing to
install the port (details below). I did obtain
communicator-v475-us.alpha-dec-osf4.0.tar directly from Netscape's
site. It installed (ns-install) and started, but didn't work real
well.

The list of netscape ports in /uar/ports/www all dated October 19 post
cvsup:
=============================================================
bsdi-netscape47-communicator
bsdi-netscape47-communicator.us
bsdi-netscape47-navigator
bsdi-netscape47-navigator.us
linux-netscape4
linux-netscape47-communicator
linux-netscape47-navigator
linux-netscape6
netscape-remote
netscape-wrapper
netscape3
netscape3-gold
netscape4-communicator
netscape4-communicator.us
netscape4-navigator
netscape47-communicator
netscape47-communicator.us
netscape47-navigator
netscape47-navigator.us
=============================================================

These are the results of trying to install ports starting at the
alphabetical top of the list:

Script started on Mon Oct 23 14:12:50 2000
Felix# make install
===>  bsdi-netscape-communicator-4.75 is forbidden: buffer overflow
when processing HTML forms, reported by Michal Zalewski--example at
http://people.freebsd.org/~trevor/hostile-page.htm.
Felix# exit
exit

Felix# make install

===>  bsdi-netscape-navigator-4.75 is forbidden: buffer overflow when
processing HTML forms, reported by Michal Zalewski--example at
http://people.freebsd.org/~trevor/hostile-page.htm.
Felix# exit

exit


Felix# make install

===>  linux-netscape-communicator-4.75 is only for i386, and you are
running alpha.
Felix# exit

exit


Felix# make install

===>  linux-netscape-navigator-4.75 is only for i386, and you are
running alpha.
Felix# cd ..

Felix# make install

===>  linux-netscape-6 is only for i386, and you are running alpha.
Felix# exit


While re-running the installations to capture the output, I apparently
managed to run the install for a port I hadn't tried and -- it worked!
(sort of)
==========================================

Script started on Mon Oct 23 14:18:26 2000
Felix# make install

>> communicator-v475-us.alpha-dec-osf4.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/english/4.75/unix/supported/dec_unix40/complete_install/.

Receiving communicator-v475-us.alpha-dec-osf4.0.t (13580766 bytes):
100%
13580766 bytes transferred in 111.8 seconds (118.67 kBps)
===>  Extracting for netscape-communicator-4.75
>> Checksum OK for communicator-v475-us.alpha-dec-osf4.0.tar.gz.
===>   netscape-communicator-4.75 depends on shared library: X11.6 -
found
===>  Patching for netscape-communicator-4.75
===>  Configuring for netscape-communicator-4.75
===>  Installing for netscape-communicator-4.75
===>   netscape-communicator-4.75 depends on executable: netscape -
not found
===>    Verifying install for netscape in
/usr/ports/www/netscape-wrapper
===>  Extracting for netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07
>> No MD5 checksum file.
===>  Patching for netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07
===>  Configuring for netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07
===>  Building for netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07
/usr/bin/sed 's,%%PREFIX%%,/usr/local,g'
/usr/ports/www/netscape-wrapper/files/netscape.sh >
/usr/ports/www/netscape-wrapper/work/netscape.sh
===>  Installing for netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07
===>   netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07 depends on executable:
netscape-remote - not found
===>    Verifying install for netscape-remote in
/usr/ports/www/netscape-remote
>> remote.c doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/netscape-remote.
>> Attempting to fetch from http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/.
fetch: warning: the -b option is deprecated

Receiving remote.c (18579 bytes): 0%
Receiving remote.c (18579 bytes): 100%
18579 bytes transferred in 0.6 seconds (32.00 kBps)
>> vroot.h doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/netscape-remote.
>> Attempting to fetch from http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/.
fetch: warning: the -b option is deprecated

Receiving vroot.h (4930 bytes): 0%
Receiving vroot.h (4930 bytes): 100%
4930 bytes transferred in 0.2 seconds (22.25 kBps)
===>  Extracting for netscape-remote-1.0
>> Checksum OK for netscape-remote/remote.c.
>> Checksum OK for netscape-remote/vroot.h.
===>   netscape-remote-1.0 depends on shared library: X11.6 - found
===>  Patching for netscape-remote-1.0
===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for netscape-remote-1.0
===>  Configuring for netscape-remote-1.0
===>  Building for netscape-remote-1.0
cc -O -pipe -DSTANDALONE -g -I/usr/X11R6/include -c remote.c
cc -O -pipe -DSTANDALONE -g -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib
-lX11 -lXmu -o netscape-remote remote.o
===>  Installing for netscape-remote-1.0
===>   netscape-remote-1.0 depends on shared library: X11.6 - found
cc -O -pipe -DSTANDALONE -g -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib
-lX11 -lXmu -o netscape-remote remote.o
install -c -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 netscape-remote /usr/local/bin
===>   Generating temporary packing list
===>   Registering installation for netscape-remote-1.0
===>   Returning to build of netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07
install -c -o root -g wheel -m 555
/usr/ports/www/netscape-wrapper/work/netscape.sh
/usr/local/bin/netscape
===>   Generating temporary packing list
===>   Registering installation for netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07
===>   Returning to build of netscape-communicator-4.75
===>   netscape-communicator-4.75 depends on shared library: X11.6 -
found
===>   Generating temporary packing list
This is the netscape web-surfboard.  Please read the file
"/usr/local/lib/netscape/LICENSE" for the licensing terms.

Note: If Java applets fail to display.  Type this as root:
		cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
		/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
		chmod 444 fonts.dir
      And then exit and restart your X server.
===>   Registering installation for netscape-communicator-4.75
Felix# exit

exit

I removed the TRU64/v4 version and deinstalled the one installed from
ports, then reinstalled the port. It still works only with IP numbers.
Exiting Navigator (launched from a term window in X/KDE) leaves this
message:

KCharset: Wrong charset!

Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-Menu-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
================================

Installing XFree86 v4 appears not to be a viable option:

(wrapping may make this difficult to read -- this is captured with
'script' and the longest line is number 33015 with a width of 1543
characters... The "Error code 1" is line 33022)
Felix# make install
===>  Extracting for XFree86-4.0.1_3
>> Checksum OK for xc/X401src-1.tgz.
>> Checksum OK for xc/X401src-2.tgz.
===>  Patching for XFree86-4.0.1_3
===>  Configuring for XFree86-4.0.1_3

 [LOTS omitted here, then --]

cc -c -O -ansi -pedantic -Dasm=__asm -Wall -Wpointer-arith   -I. -I..
-I../../../../../programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common
-I../../../../../programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support
-I../../../../../programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/vbe 	
-I../../../../../programs/Xserver/dbe
-I../../../../../programs/Xserver/Xext
-I../../../../../programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/int10 	
-I../../../../../programs/Xserver/mfb
-I../../../../../programs/Xserver/mi
-I../../../../../programs/Xserver/include 	
-I../../../../../programs/Xserver/os
-I../../../../../exports/include/X11 -I../../../../../include/fonts 	
-I../../../../../lib/font/include
-I../../../../../lib/font/fontcache 	
-I../../../../../include/extensions
-I../../../../../programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/ddc
-I../../../../../programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/i2c  -I../../../../..
-I../../../../../exports/include  -DCSRG_BASED -DSHAPE -DXINPUT -DXKB
-DLBX -DXAPPGROUP -DXCSECURITY -DTOGCUP  -DXF86BIGFONT
-DDPMSExtension  -DPIXPRIV -DPANORAMIX  -DGCCUSESGAS -DAVOID_GLYPHBLT
-DPIXPRIV -DSINGLEDEPTH -DXFreeXDGA -DXvExtension -DXFree86LOADER 
-DXFree86Server -DXF86VIDMODE  -DSMART_SCHEDULE
-DX_BYTE_ORDER=X_LITTLE_ENDIAN -D_XSERVER64 -DNDEBUG   -DFUNCPROTO=15
-DNARROWPROTO    -DDLOPEN_SUPPORT  -DMITMISC -DXTEST -DXSYNC -DXCMISC
-DXRECORD  -DMITSHM -DXIE -DBIGREQS -DXF86VIDMODE -DXF86MISC -DDBE
-DDPMSExtension -DEVI -DSCREENSAVER -DXV  -DGLXEXT -DXF86DRI
-DGLX_DIRECT_RENDERING -DGLX_USE_DLOPEN -DGLX_USE_MESA -D__GLX_ALIGN64
-DFONTCACHE xf86sym.c
xf86sym.c:865: `_bus_base' undeclared here (not in a function)
xf86sym.c:865: initializer element is not constant
xf86sym.c:865: (near initialization for
`xfree86LookupTab[495].offset')
*** Error code 1

Stop in
/usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4/work/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/loader.
*** Error code 1


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