On 24-Jul-99 Kain wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 06:38:23PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> On 24-Jul-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Netscape 4.61 as packaged in "potato" dies intermittently around window >> > destroy events. Does anyone know why? > >> We can only guess it to be glibc related ( it is compiled against 2.0 not >> 2.1 > > In that case, I would bet that it is also likely that these netscapes use > some of the 'reserved for internal use' symbols/function in glibc and is thus > broken in a manner similar to StarOffice... I've actually been having this > problem for quite awhile now with Netscape and glibc2.1. Unless Netscape > releases a fix for this, I don't know what else would fix it. (you could > probably do fun things with ldconfig and paths and make NS4.61 use a glibc2.0 > dumped somewhere else...)
Hmm.. That reminds me. A while ago (check the debian-user archives) (before SO 5.1 came out), somebody prepared a mini-howto to get StarOffice 5.01 working under a potato system. I have the mini-howto mirrored here: http://www.canadianhomes.net/wim/downloads/StarOffice501_glibc21.gz A suitable minimal Debian 2.1 (slink) base install [6.9MB] can be found here: http://www.canadianhomes.net/wim/downloads/slink.tar.gz. Basically, the mini-howto describes the procedure: create a chroot environment, install the slink base install,` and run the scripts included in the mini-howto. If somebody wants to hack up those scripts to get them to work, be my guest. Later, --------------------------- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
