Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 14:39:17 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "David Kelly" <dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org>, <go@dubkat.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Netscape & X 4.0.3 Message-ID: <001b01c0b4b3$429ff9e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <200103242227.f2OMRSP84331@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David Kelly >Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 2:27 PM >To: go@dubkat.com >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Netscape & X 4.0.3 > > >go@dubkat.com writes: >> Hi, I'm trying to install Netscape Navigator 4.76 from the ports >tree, and >> it insists on installing some XFree86 3.3.3 libs. Is there a way >for me to >> get around this while using XFree86 4.0.3? When I do make >install, it gets >> to the build of XFree86-aoutlibs-3.3.3, and stops w/ an error like "There >> aren't any a.out libraries on your machine. Please install the compat22 >> distribution." I'd rather not have any old XFree86 libraries at >all, since >> 4.0.3 is working great so far. Any suggestions? > >Write to Netscape and ask them to use a modern FreeBSD. > Instead of complaining, why don't you go to http://www.mozilla.org and pull down the source code for the current version of Netscape and compile it up yourself? There is also a FreeBSD 4.2 binary that has bee uploaded there, at http://www.mozilla.org/releases/ Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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