Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 22:06:53 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netscape4.61 install problem under 3-stable Message-ID: <20000104220653.E352@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <8835.946956590@pcnbs.pfcs.com> References: <20000103103039.D330@marder-1> <8835.946956590@pcnbs.pfcs.com>
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On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 10:29:50PM -0500, Harlan Stenn wrote:
> Yes, I installed the linux_base port to see if StarOffice would be useful to
> me.
>
> I did an "unsetenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH" and was able to run the linux netscape
> successfully.
>
Great :)
> If I do the same for the FreeBSD netsacpe, it runs OK, too.
>
Even better :):)
> To directly answer your question, my generic .cshrc will set
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> Its current value is: /usr/local/lib:/usr/lib/compat:/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib
>
That's pretty much what mine was. Just comment it out or delete it in
~/.cshrc, that's all I did and *everything* is just fine and dandy now.
> > As to why the FreeBSD native netscape doesn't work, I don't know,
> > except that it's trying to use ELF libs. What are the
> > ``ldconfig_paths='' and ``ldconfig_paths_aout'' in
> > /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc*?
>
> The only place these variables are set is in /etc/defaults/rc.conf:
>
> ldconfig_paths="/usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib"
> ldconfig_paths_aout="/usr/lib/compat/aout /usr/X11R6/lib/aout /usr/local/lib/aout"
>
Same as mine, just leave them as they are.
> I'm inclined to fix the problem by explicitly removing LD_LIBRARY_PATH from
> the netscape startup script.
>
Well, if you did ``unsetenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH'' *then* ran Netscape via the
startup script you should not have to bother. If you had to start
Netscape without the start-up script, to bypass the ``setenv
LD_LIBRARY_PATH'' in it, then just comment it out.
> The other solution would be to learn what is wrong with my LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> value, and I'll simply make that "right".
>
Nothing. It's just that, with linux_base installed, the Linux binaries
try to use the FreeBSD ldconfig paths.
Take a look at the thread "Netscape 4.61 (Linux) broken since adding
linux_base-5.2" in the -questions archive (~11/10/99) which may shed
some light on how it all works, or doesn't, as the case may be. This
was the thread I started when I got hit by this.
> Thanks very much for your help!
>
You're welcome. Glad to be of help, just sorry it took so long for me
to twig it was the same problem I'd had.
> H
--
"there's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 architecture
that allows you to install Windows too"
-Matthew D. Fuller
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