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Date:      Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:36:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, khera@kciLink.com
Subject:   Re: 4.1-RELEASE & Netscape (aout libraries)
Message-ID:  <200008241736.NAA78958@lakes.dignus.com>
In-Reply-To: <14757.23661.361639.463861@onceler.kciLink.com>

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Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> wrote:

> 
> >>>>> "TDR" == Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> writes:
> 
> TDR> It seems that a fresh/clean install of 4.1-RELEASE didn't
> TDR> install the aout libraries.  (/usr/lib/aout is empty)
> 
> 
> TDR> Thus, installing Netscape results in something that can't find
> TDR> libXt.so.6.0.
> 
> TDR> Any idea about how/where to find the aout X11 libraries?
> 
> Yes. During install (or make installworld) select the FreeBSD 2.2
> compatibility libraries for installation.
> 
> This installs the necessary a.out system libs you need to run netscape
> (the package system will install the necessary X11 a.out libraries if
> it finds the 2.2 a.out system libs).
> 
> However, this compatibility does not install /usr/lib/aout/c++rt0.o
> which is necessary for compiling a.out binaries (such as the plugger
> port, which links into netscape).  For this, you need to pull it off
> of a 2.2.x binary distribution, as discussed here two days ago.
> 
> Now, let's just convince Netscape to build a native 4.1 binary, eh?
> ;-)
> 

 Hmm... I'm pretty sure I did select all of the compat options
 in sysinstall when I did the install... (is there a way, after the fact
 now, to see if I actually did, or if I'm simply mis-remembering, or,
 maybe - "missed" one of these?)

	- Dave Rivers -



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