> OK, we're getting somewhere - the libc5 and glibc versions behave
> differently. Hooray.
>
> I tried downloading libc5 Netscape direct from Netscape, or the mirror
> at
>
>ftp://ftp.the.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/english/4.61/unix/supported/linux20_libc5/
>
> I then fortified it and ran it on my Redhat 6.0 system with my little
> circle applet. It still crashes/hangs after dragging along a lot,
> although with the libc5 system it doesn't chew 100% cpu and responds
> to normal kill signals. glibc chewed 100% CPU and required signal 9 to
> kill.
Have you tried to download special libc5 and libXpm library from this
URL: http://members.eunet.at/theofilu/netscape.html
Follow the install instruction included inside (basicaly use LD_PRELOAD)
> I think the real solution is for Netscape to statically link a build
> of Netscape 4.61. Yeah, it's ugly, but maybe it'd at least work. Maybe
> the X libraries could be dynamically linked on the hope it's the C or
> C++ libraries that are the problem.
Well if you run those special libraries the only problem will likely
be memory leaks - not a problem to grow over 100MB after a heave usage
and the growing never stops.
So I would suggest to Netsacpe to recompile Motif2.1 for glibc2.1 -
easy thing to do - especialy now when most of glibc headers are finaly
fixed - and recompile the whole netscape on some well build linux
distribution - I would prefer Debian - potato. But I don't belive they
would listen my this advice.
--
Given enough time and money, Microsoft will eventually "invent" Unix.
George Bonser Thomas Lakofski
No chance. They only have a finite number of monkeys.
Zdenek Kabelac http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kabi/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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