From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 6 8:22:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F41E214EDF for ; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 08:22:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1247.bossig.com [208.26.241.247]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA05694; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 08:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <375A921B.AC90E8BA@3-cities.com> Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 08:22:03 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@3-cities.com Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nik Clayton Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape, 3.x, and -DWANT_AOUT References: <19990606133056.L30927@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nik Clayton wrote: > > How do, > > Am I right in thinking that before I can run Netscape 4.x on a FreeBSD > 3.x system, that system must have been compiled with "-DWANT_AOUT"? > > Or does ports/www/netscape46-navigator work on a wholly Elf system? Hi Nik, I have been sort of waiting for someone to answer that. I am running 3.2-stable and I didn't use "-DWANT_AOUT" in the buildworld. There are somethings that need "compat22" and I don't have that in my kernel either. I am also using Netscape 4.6. This all makes me wonder why they work. Being from the old school that doesn't fix something that isn't broken, I figured that someone would popup with a problem and I would learn when either or both was needed. I definitely believe in Murphy's Law's but I also believe a system will fail for me before it will fail for other people. So, I am sitting here wondering why for a change . BTW, mergemaster is a wonderful tool. I tried doing the diff thing from your buildworld write up but they were changing the system faster than I could upgrade it. There was something that didn't quite work right on my system during the transition from 3.1-stable to beta to 3.2-stable and I couldn't keep up. You have this "kind of" broken system and you don't know what these change were fixing and had to try them. Someone eventually told me about mergemaster and I found that I had a life again. What ever was broken was magically fixed at 3.2-release + 1 week. Kent > > N > -- > [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, > non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs > the links. > -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message