From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 25 8:32:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua (ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua [212.9.224.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5999814E7D for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 08:32:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sobomax@altavista.net) Received: from vega.vega.com (dialup5-29.iptelecom.net.ua [212.9.227.29]) by ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA04798; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 18:34:44 +0200 (EET) Received: from altavista.net (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vega.vega.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA29487; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 16:50:16 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@altavista.net) Message-ID: <383D4C9D.4ECF9281@altavista.net> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 16:50:05 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev Reply-To: sobomax@altavista.net Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: uk,ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nnd@mail.nsk.ru Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD ELF Netscape binaries ? References: <199911251410.UAA32904@wint.itfs.nsk.su> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG nnd@mail.nsk.ru wrote: > In <383D1DFB.80CD028F@altavista.net> Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > nnd@mail.nsk.ru wrote: > > > >> What (if any) are the problems with > >> native FreeBSD ELF Netscape Communicator/Navigator binaries ? > > > > AFAIK one major problem exist - ELF version is still unavailable. > > Sorry, but my question must be - WHY there still is no > ELF version of Netscape Communicator for FreeBSD ? > (FreeBSD's point of view to this problem ?) IMHO it is not a right place to ask (try to mail Netscape instead). Seems that Netscape doesn't see any objections to bother with porting, probably because aout binaries still supported (at least theoretically, while in fact it is huge headache associated with the need to have two versions of each .so). -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message