On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:32:48PM -0800, Ken Marx wrote: >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.
New ones are built so that applications that still use the old a.out libraries get the benefit of any security and bug fixes. >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 The new ones should be backward compatible (no removed interfaces and no changed interfaces). The best solution would be to locate the cause of the problem, see if it's compatibility breakage, and if so, see if it can be fixed without causing more serious compatibility problems. FWIW, the a.out libraries supplied with the XFree86 4.3 FreeBSD bindists were built on a clean FreeBSD 2.2.8 installation. I think that was one of the last a.out releases? David -- David Dawes Release Engineer/Architect The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
