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Re[2]: Netscape for linux.



gil@csc.cs.technion.ac.il (Gili Granot) wrote:
>  
>  I downloaded netscape and had no problems with it.
>  You may have older libraries than the ones Netscape was linked with.
>  do an "ls /lib/libm.so.4*" if this find any library, soft link it
>  to /lib/libm.so.4 .
>  If you do not find this library, try soft linking the new libraries
>  by "cd /lib ; ln -s libm.so.5 libm.so.4" .

That's wrong advice. Firstly, libc.so.4* are in aout format, and libc.so.5* are
ELF. An application compiled in aout format (Netscape in this case) can't use
dll ELF libraries (and wise versa). Secondly, even if both libs had been in the
same binary format, you wouldn't have fooled the linker this way, as they differ
by major version number.
So, the right answer is to download aout libraries. Get libc-4.7.5.tar.gz from
sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/GCC (you'll need only /lib/lib*.so.* from the package)
and run ldconfig after installation.

Evgeny



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