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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



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