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Date:      Sun, 11 Jul 1999 23:01:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com>
To:        Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape pkg silently requires compat22
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907112300320.5610-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com>
In-Reply-To: <199907120208.MAA11204@lightning.itga.com.au>

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The same thing happens with the latest binary builds from Netscape
(which I presume the CD package is merely a repackaging of.)  My
guess is Netscape is still using an a.out 2.2 machine to do the
builds.

On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Gregory Bond wrote:

: Installing 3.2R off the CD. Installing either of the the netscape 4.5 packages
: needs compat22 (else you get the cryptic "/usr/libexec/ld.so not found" error
: when you attempt to run netscape).  But afaict this dependency is not expressed
: anywhere....  if such a dependency is even expressible with packages.
: 
: The fix is easy: install the compat22 stuff from the first CD.  But it took a 
: bit of finding!

Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com>
Owner/Administrator, zigg.com
Chief Engineer, Nameless IRC Network



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