Re: autocompiler?
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 09:44:45AM -0700, Walter Keeler wrote:
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> On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Ben Collins wrote:
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> > On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 10:39:29PM -0300, Lalo Martins wrote:
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> > > BTW, Netscape and XF86Setup/xf86config are probably the most
> > > FA of FAQs for debian-sparc. Couldn't they be added to the port
> > > page? And couldn't someone upload a binary-sparc package of
> > > netscape, doesn't matter which version, somewhere?
> >
> > We cannot, simply because it isn't on netscape's ftp server any longer
> > which means we can't distribute it anymore. XF86 3.3.5 is in the potato
> > archive.
> >
> > Ben
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> As has been posted on this list recently, Sparc linux Netscape is
> available in RPM form at the Red Hat site. Alien for Sparc works like a
> champ, as do the resulting debian packages.
It's also worth noting that the source package in slink's netscape contains
the sparc bins, just get the source package and build it on a sparc.
Ben
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