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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.ci.com.au!brian.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!inquo!hookup!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.netscape.com!pixie.mcom.com!news From: Chris McAfee <mcafee@netscape.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x Subject: Re: Netscape 4.01b6 and FreeBSD - ARGH! Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 06:11:09 -0700 Organization: N E T S C A P E Lines: 44 Message-ID: <33C23C6D.24ED6D63@netscape.com> References: <33BB5706.E191709C@panoramix.rain.fr> <33BB89D7.84E4AE71@panoramix.rain.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.217.243.26 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01b6C [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.4 sun4c) To: Tom Fischer <tfischer@panoramix.rain.fr> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44373 comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x:10618 Tom Fischer wrote: > > A quick update: > > I installed the linux_lib-2.4 port, turned on linux emulation, installed > the communicator-v401b6-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz version, > and it works wonderfully. It seems that just about everything > works, java, etc. I don't really notice any slowdown, either. > > So, if you can afford the extra disk space taken up by the linux > libs, this may be a viable option... > > Tom Fischer wrote: > > > > Well, it appears that neither the > > communicator-v401b6-export.x86-bsdi-bsd.tar.gz nor the > > communicator-v401b6-export.x86-bsdi-bsd2.tar.gz versions > > now work on FreeBSD. > > > > I tried installing both, using the 'ns-install' script, set > > all my environment variables, and nothing would even come up! > > The disk would churn for a second, then I'd get a friendly > > > > "floating point exception" message. > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE with XFree86 3.3. > > > > 4.0b5 runs (I wouldn't say it runs well- java won't run in 8bpp > > graphics mode...). > > We've had to ignore SIGFPE on other platforms, it wasn't being ignored for the bsdi builds, now it is :-) Another workaround might to run netscape from gdb, ignoring SIGFPE: (guessing at the syntax) handle SIGFPE pass print Sorry about that, "it was working for us". -Chris mcafee@netscape.com Unix Communicator