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Date:      Tue, 01 Feb 2000 12:43:23 -0800
From:      R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>
To:        keramida@ceid.upatras.gr
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape and XFree86 3.3.6
Message-ID:  <3897456B.B3CDD63D@nwlink.com>
References:  <20000201190718.A841@hades.hell.gr>

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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> 
> I'm running XFree86 version 3.3.6 which I compiled from the ports.  I
> vaguely remember being asked about a.out compatibility libraries, but I
> can't remember what I answered.  Is this the cause of the missing
> libraries reported from ldd(1) for Netscape?
> 
>         % ldd /usr/local/netscape/netscape
>         netscape:
>                 -lXt.6 => not found (0x0)
>                 -lXmu.6 => not found (0x0)
>                 -lXext.6 => not found (0x0)
>                 -lX11.6 => not found (0x0)
>                 -lSM.6 => not found (0x0)
>                 -lICE.6 => not found (0x0)
>                 -lg++.4 => /usr/lib/compat/aout/libg++.so.4.0
> (0x20641000)
>                 -lstdc++.2 => /usr/lib/compat/aout/libstdc++.so.2.0
> (0x2067d000)
>                 -lm.2 => /usr/lib/compat/aout/libm.so.2.0 (0x206b3000)
>                 -lc.3 => /usr/lib/compat/aout/libc.so.3.1 (0x206cd000)
> 
> It takes a long time to recompile XFree86 on my P5 133, and if this
> isn't going to help with this, I want to avoid it.  But if adding those
> a.out support libraries will make Netscape run, it seems I got no
> choise...  Does anyone know if a recompile of XFree will be of any help?

You need the a.out support to make it work, however I think you can
install those libraries using /stand/sysinstall.  Go to
post-installation configuration, install additional distribution sets
and somewhere in there is 2.x compatibility.  This was all I had to do
to make Netscape work.

-- 
R Joseph Wright 

*I merely took the energy it takes to pout
and wrote some blues --Duke Ellington*


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