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chazmer
Junior Member
Member # 23

posted August 17, 2001 08:52 AM

I noticed over at the gnu-darwin site they have screenshots of them running various window managers..andin some they are running Netscape.. well I went to go compile netscape on my machine - and it wouldn' texecute the binary.. so I am doing something wrong.. so that's my request. plus xwd too unles it's been ported already

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jasont
Member
Member # 16

posted August 17, 2001 10:02 AM

Are you running rootless with a window manager?
Did you get ANY errors in your configuration, make, or make install? Or did you download a binary distribution?
Did you look at the porting tips on that page? (you may need a stub)

BTW: I've seen a few "finished" ports there that are nothing more than reversions and won't do what they're supposed to.

The one I saw in the CVS was this

code:


Port:	bsdi-netscape-navigator-4.75
Path:	/usr/ports/www/bsdi
netscape47-navigator
Info:	Netscape Navigator with 128-bit
encryption for BSDI BSD/OS
Maint:	trevor@FreeBSD.org
Index:	www
B-deps:	XFree86-3.3.6_6
R-deps:	XFree86-3.3.6_6 netscape-remote-1.0
netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07

Did you find one using the 4.1 build of xfree?

[ August 17, 2001: Message edited by: jasont ]

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chazmer
Junior Member
Member # 23

posted August 17, 2001 10:38 AM

Jason,

I dloaded the version of Xfree86 from here - andalso I dloaded windowmaker from here. I downloaded FreeBSD's version of netscape from netscape.com (V 4.76) - I didn't get any errors during installtion..but when I'd execute the binary it wouldn't run. it gave an error. soo I am unsure of what i've done wrong.

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ob1
Junior Member
Member # 15

posted August 17, 2001 12:22 PM

If i can find a link to the source code *ahhem* maybe i'll be able to compile it. But we wont know till i find a source!

-ohbee

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jasont
Member
Member # 16

posted August 17, 2001 03:55 PM

Hmmnnn. I can't seem to find the netscape source code. I could find the required additional components from freshmeat. The distribution is here ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/english/4.76/unix/unsupported/freebsd/complete_install/communicator-v476-us.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz but I think it'll probably be mozilla for the source code unless someone else finds it.
-j

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