From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 16 23:35:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C574914D6A for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 23:35:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA28798; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 23:35:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37689713.284B615@gorean.org> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 23:34:59 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White Cc: Nik Clayton , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape, 3.x, and -DWANT_AOUT References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > > On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > 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? > > Netscape is still an a.out binary, so you must have the a.out libs > (INCLUDING X) on the system. Yes. I was bitten by this myself on a recent new installation. I installed a minimal system (including the compat stuff) and then built X from the port. The lack of X aout libs meant that netscape wouldn't start. I ended up installing the X compat libs from another system. Does anyone know for sure if -DWANT_AOUT work with the X port? Doug PS, thanks for the compliment about mergemaster. :) -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** Nominated for quote of the year is the statement made by Representative Dick Armey (Texas), who when asked if he were in the President's place, would he resign, responded: "If I were in the President's place I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey standing over me saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message