Re: netscape 4.61 dies around window destroy in "potato"
On 24-Jul-99 Kain wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 06:38:23PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>> On 24-Jul-99 bruce@perens.com wrote:
>> > Netscape 4.61 as packaged in "potato" dies intermittently around window
>> > destroy events. Does anyone know why?
>
>> We can only guess it to be glibc related ( it is compiled against 2.0 not
>> 2.1
>
> In that case, I would bet that it is also likely that these netscapes use
> some of the 'reserved for internal use' symbols/function in glibc and is thus
> broken in a manner similar to StarOffice... I've actually been having this
> problem for quite awhile now with Netscape and glibc2.1. Unless Netscape
> releases a fix for this, I don't know what else would fix it. (you could
> probably do fun things with ldconfig and paths and make NS4.61 use a glibc2.0
> dumped somewhere else...)
Hmm.. That reminds me. A while ago (check the debian-user archives) (before SO
5.1 came out), somebody prepared a mini-howto to get StarOffice 5.01 working
under a potato system.
I have the mini-howto mirrored here:
http://www.canadianhomes.net/wim/downloads/StarOffice501_glibc21.gz
A suitable minimal Debian 2.1 (slink) base install [6.9MB] can be found here:
http://www.canadianhomes.net/wim/downloads/slink.tar.gz.
Basically, the mini-howto describes the procedure: create a chroot environment,
install the slink base install,` and run the scripts included in the mini-howto.
If somebody wants to hack up those scripts to get them to work, be my guest.
Later,
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Wim Kerkhoff
wim@netmaster.ca
www.canadianhomes.net/wim
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