good news and bad news

good news and bad news

[Thomas Klaube]

Hi all,

good news:
Netscape has released some binary versions of their Netscape communicatior
version 4.51 in the unsupported section. There is a sparc version too..
(ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.51/english/unix/unsupported/linux20_sparc_glibc2/)

bad news: 
I cant make it work :-(. Its the same error as the 4.5 sparc version:
bash-2.01$ ./netscape 
./netscape: error in loading shared libraries
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info

I have installed the latest libstdc++.so.2.8 I could find. 
I am wondering against wich libstdc++ they linked the binary...

Was anyone able to start the binary?

BTW: Right now I use the SunOS version of netscape 4.5... with some
frobbing in the kernelsource you can enable the SunOS emulation, but its
not really stable, so be carefu; :-)

Regards 
Thomas

Re: good news and bad news

[David Miller]

   From: Thomas Klaube <Klaube@noc.dfn.de>
   Date: 	Fri, 26 Mar 1999 21:42:24 +0100 (MET)

   I cant make it work :-(. Its the same error as the 4.5 sparc version:
   bash-2.01$ ./netscape 
   ./netscape: error in loading shared libraries
   /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info

   I have installed the latest libstdc++.so.2.8 I could find. 
   I am wondering against wich libstdc++ they linked the binary...

   Was anyone able to start the binary?

Your libstdc++ was compiled with gcc-2.7.x or similar, and not egcs.
You need to upgrade to a egcs based set of compilers and libraries.
And if you have a system this old to have such a gcc compiled
libstdc++ then you almost certainly have a very old glibc which would
crash with the sparclinux netscapes as well.

So if you want netscape to work, upgrade.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

Re: good news and bad news

[Jakub Jelinek]

> 
>    From: Thomas Klaube <Klaube@noc.dfn.de>
>    Date: 	Fri, 26 Mar 1999 21:42:24 +0100 (MET)
> 
>    I cant make it work :-(. Its the same error as the 4.5 sparc version:
>    bash-2.01$ ./netscape 
>    ./netscape: error in loading shared libraries
>    /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info
> 
>    I have installed the latest libstdc++.so.2.8 I could find. 
>    I am wondering against wich libstdc++ they linked the binary...
> 
>    Was anyone able to start the binary?
> 
> Your libstdc++ was compiled with gcc-2.7.x or similar, and not egcs.
> You need to upgrade to a egcs based set of compilers and libraries.
> And if you have a system this old to have such a gcc compiled
> libstdc++ then you almost certainly have a very old glibc which would
> crash with the sparclinux netscapes as well.
> 
> So if you want netscape to work, upgrade.

The library which is a problem is glibc, just upgrade it and you'll be set
up.

Cheers,
    Jakub
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