Re: Netscape 3.0 for Linux/Sparc

[vojta@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta)]

> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 21:06:24 +0200
> From: Jerome ALET <alet@unice.fr>
> To: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <baptista@cos.ufrj.br>
> CC: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Netscape 3.0 for Linux/Sparc
>
> Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> > 
> >         Hi folks,
> >         anyone knows if there is a Netscape 3.0 version for Linux/Sparc?
> > I have to install it in a Sparc 4 here at school.
> >         Thanks,         Paulo Henrique
>
> it doesn't exist but you can use Netscape 3.0 for SunOS under Linux with
> the SunOS emulator.

Yes, except that the SunOS emulator is disabled at the moment.
To re-enable it, apply the enclosed diff and recompile the kernel.

Anybody know any details about the problem ``SunOS apps sometimes crash''?
I haven't had any problems recently.

--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu

diff -ur linux/include/asm-sparc/namei.h linux/include/asm-sparc/namei.h
--- include/asm-sparc/namei.h	Tue Mar 16 09:44:01 1999
+++ include/asm-sparc/namei.h	Tue Mar 16 09:44:11 1999
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 	char *emul;
 
 	switch (current->personality) {
-#if 0
+#if 1
 /* Until we solve, why SunOS apps sometime crash, disable gnemul support for SunOS */
 	case PER_BSD:
 		emul = SPARC_BSD_EMUL; break;