On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 07:59:16PM -0400, Deirdre Saoirse wrote: > Paul Mackerras pointed out to me yesterday why my netscape wasn't working: > Glibc2.1, which is incompatible with the version used to compile Netscape. > > Two points: > > a) does anyone know if and/or when a newer version of Netscape will be out > that we CAN run? > > b) a workaround occurred to me later: good old ssh and X. I now ssh into a > coworker's box (x86 linux in this case) and run Netscape there. The > display is automagically forwarded (encrypted) to my machine. :)
With a ton of help from my housemate Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), I worked around this problem by pointing netscape to use old libraries at runtime. Here're the basic steps we took: - pulled old shared libraries from the following redhat rpms in ftp://ftp.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-R4/RedHat/RPMS: X11R6.3-libs-01-1r.ppc.rpm glibc-0.961212-1h.ppc.rpm xpm-3.4j-1b.ppc.rpm libg++-2.8.1.980306-1c.ppc.rpm - dumped them into a newly-created directory, /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/old - in this directory, edited ld.so.1 to change the library path string: % perl -pe 's/LD_LIBRARY_PATH/LD_LIBRARY_PAT1/' ld.so.1 > ld.so.1.new % mv ld.so.1 ld.so.1.OLD % mv ld.so.1.new ld.so.1 - moved the netscape 4.08 binary (which i have installed in /usr/local/bin) to netscape-exec - created a wrapper script as /usr/local/bin/netscape; its contents: #!/bin/sh LIBDIR=/usr/lib/netscape/base-4/old LD_LIBRARY_PAT1=${LIBDIR} exec ${LIBDIR}/ld.so.1 \ /usr/local/bin/netscape-exec "$@" This works well enough (until I can get mozilla built, i guess)... hopefully I haven't left any steps out. (I should also note that I'm running debian, not redhat; I've crossposted to the debian-powerpc list in case it's useful there, too.) -d.d-
