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Date:      Mon, 24 May 2004 13:43:32 +0200
From:      "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@kayjay.xs4all.nl>
To:        Stephan van Beerschoten <stephanb@whacky.net>
Cc:        Robin Schoonover <end@endif.cjb.net>
Subject:   Re: resolver problem with Opera
Message-ID:  <20040524114332.GA70069@kayjay.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20040524112546.GC81519@enigma.whacky.net>
References:  <20040522111520.GA63653@kayjay.xs4all.nl> <20040522092453.1d180c46@localhost> <20040522180522.GA64710@kayjay.xs4all.nl> <20040522153821.H3299@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20040524110938.GA69786@kayjay.xs4all.nl> <xzpaczyulin.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040524112546.GC81519@enigma.whacky.net>

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On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:25:46PM +0200, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:12:16PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> >"Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@kayjay.xs4all.nl> writes:
> >>They are not present. Adding host.conf solved the problem! Although
> >>I found a reference to nsswitch.conf in the Opera binary, it seems to
> >>be ignored: I do have an nsswitch.conf now, generated at boot time from
> >>host.conf, but removing the host.conf makes Opera behave the old way.
> >
> >that's because Opera is a 4.x binary, and the 4.x libc doesn't know
> >about nsswitch.conf.
> 
> Isn't it evenly true that Opera is a linux binary and that you could copy 
> this file into /compat/linux/etc to make sure it doesn't negatively affect 
> your FreeBSD? (Correct me if I'm wrong here).

Not in my case because I'm using the 'native' (4.x FreeBSD binary) version
of Opera:

[karelj@athlon]/usr/X11R6/share/opera/bin> file opera
opera: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 4.6, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

Karel.



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