Re: Possible solution to Netscape crashing problem

[Mark Montague <monty@gg.caltech.edu>]

Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> writes:

> On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 04:09:39PM +0100, Stefan Gybas wrote:
> > Further investigation showed that only building two files (Callback.o and 
> > Destroy.o) in libXt with gcc272 instead of gcc semms to cure the problem.
> > I have put a libXt built this way at http://pandora.debian.org/~sgybas/
> > together with a signature made with my Debian key.
> 
> 
> Hmm..
> 
> Using this copy of libXt, I have no problem on a page which would
> almost always crash netscape (it required a number of different
> images, each with their own basic authentication, and usually by the
> time I'd filled out all the dialogs, netscape would crash).
> 
> And, if I revert to the libXt.so.6.0 which came in version 3.3.6-1
> of xlib6g, netscape crashes without fail on this page.  [I'm using
> netscape 4.08.]

Could you point me at that page? I'd like to see if the problem still
happens with xfree 3.9.17, and if the gcc272 fix works there, too...

				thanks

					- M

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