Hi,
I previously (somewhat confusedly - sorry) posted about this
as X4.3/netscape/freebsd4.7.
I installed XF86-4.3 from FreeBSD-4.x binary distribution
I got from the xfree86.org ftp site.
It seems that the XFree86-4.3 aout libraries in Xbin.tgz
are new versions that can cause legacy aout binaries (netscape
4.5, 4.72, in my case) to segv.
Eric Anholt has graciously confirmed that the FreeBSD port
doesn't build/contain new versions of the aout libs.
I think this might be recommended for the binary distribution
as well: Either just include the old ones, or instruct installers
to leave/copy the old ones in the new 4.3 dirs.
That is, unless there's some reason to expect old binaries to use new
features, or reason to expect new aout binaries to be written.
FreeBSD folks I spoke with about this seemed to think there wasn't.
Perhaps mine is an isolated case - I haven't found other reports
of new libs crashing old aout binaries. Maybe nobody uses Netscape
anymore...
Anyway - I got netscape to work simply by moving these new
aout versions aside:
libX11.so.6.2
libXext.so.6.4
libXmu.so.6.2
Netscape just finds the old ones that I'd left from before
the upgrade, and works fine.
thanks for your time,
k.
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