Re: 4.2-stable, ports/packages in XF86 4.0.2
David W. Chapman Jr.: The problem is netscape itself, since it comes in binary format, anyone who ports it doesn't have a choice into which format, I believe the bsdi version of netscape is elf, but I'm not totally sure. It is, and the BSDI binary runs just smoothly on FreeBSD. The only issue is that the latest version is not 4.76 but 4.75. I am not sure whether this is because the BSDI version was not suffering the bug that made Netscape to release 4.76, or whether they just dropped BSDI support. Helge To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Re: 4.2-stable, ports/packages in XF86 4.0.2
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 21:15:22 -0600
From: Bruce Burden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 4.2-stable, ports/packages in XF86 4.0.2
2. The Netscape Communicator 4.76 package (from CD 1 of
the 4.2 set) will not install, complaining about the lack
of a.out X libraries. The "previous" installation of
Netscape would not start, leaving a log message of not
being able to find ld.so.6 (iirc).
I find that I need to add:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH_AOUT}
to get Netscape to install and run. Since Netscape is still in
the a.out time frame, I can see why it doesn't look for
LD_LIBRARY_PATH_AOUT. Still, an ELF format Netscape would be nice...
Well, things work ok (for Netscape :) with XFree 3.3.6...
Both installing running. Also, XFree86 4.0.2 appears to
have/install a.out libraries... (?)
But this still sounds like Yet Another Reason to ditch Netwcape...
/etc/make.conf has XFREE86_VERSION=4 defined.
This simply causes /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 directory and
dependencies to be cleaned. Otherwise, /usr/ports/x11/XFree86
(currently 3.3.6) is being cleaned.
Ideas? These start looking like port/package problems... (?)
Did you install XFree86-4.0.2 from the package or the
ports collection? I get compile errors with pthread and Xthreads
when I attempt to install in from the ports collection, which
makes it rather difficult to install...
I installed from the precompiled binaries from xfree86.org.
Alas, I've so far found almost *no* FreeBSD documentation
wrt XFree86-4... :-/
-kc
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Re: 4.2-stable, ports/packages in XF86 4.0.2
2. The Netscape Communicator 4.76 package (from CD 1 of the 4.2 set) will not install, complaining about the lack of a.out X libraries. The "previous" installation of Netscape would not start, leaving a log message of not being able to find ld.so.6 (iirc). /etc/make.conf has XFREE86_VERSION=4 defined. Ideas? These start looking like port/package problems... (?) I found that Netscape 4.76 wouldn't compile with the newer a.out libs and I had to install the older ones to make it work... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Re: 4.2-stable, ports/packages in XF86 4.0.2
2. The Netscape Communicator 4.76 package (from CD 1 of
the 4.2 set) will not install, complaining about the lack
of a.out X libraries. The "previous" installation of
Netscape would not start, leaving a log message of not
being able to find ld.so.6 (iirc).
I find that I need to add:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH_AOUT}
to get Netscape to install and run. Since Netscape is still in
the a.out time frame, I can see why it doesn't look for
LD_LIBRARY_PATH_AOUT. Still, an ELF format Netscape would be
nice...
/etc/make.conf has XFREE86_VERSION=4 defined.
This simply causes /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 directory and
dependencies to be cleaned. Otherwise, /usr/ports/x11/XFree86
(currently 3.3.6) is being cleaned.
Ideas? These start looking like port/package problems... (?)
Did you install XFree86-4.0.2 from the package or the
ports collection? I get compile errors with pthread and Xthreads
when I attempt to install in from the ports collection, which
makes it rather difficult to install...
Bruce
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