Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 08:22:03 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape, 3.x, and -DWANT_AOUT Message-ID: <375A921B.AC90E8BA@3-cities.com> References: <19990606133056.L30927@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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 <grin>. 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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?375A921B.AC90E8BA>