Re: Updated Mozilla M13 Release Build Available

Re: Updated Mozilla M13 Release Build Available

[Kevin Puetz]

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Before I answer thes, are there any people with positive reports? I need to
hear from you if it installed perfectly as well as if you had problems. Please
be sure you include me directly in the replies to this message. I'm cc'ing the
list in case anyone else is interested in simplebrowser.

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ramp@oddjob.uchicago.edu said:
> Well I'm still having problems. I do have libstdc++-2.10.0 and it
> still  seems to not do anything. Maybe part of this has something to
> do with ldconfig. What is a typical /etc/ld.so.conf look like. Mine is

I'm afraid you may just not have enough RAM for mozilla. While a lot faster
and more stable than communicator was, it's still a big browser, with quite an
appetite for RAM (and/or swap). You chould give simplebrowser a try -

 cd ..../package
./run-mozilla.sh ./simplebrowser

This is the raptor (mozilla) layout engine, but with much of the browser
eye-candy stripped away. It runs in about 8 megs here to mozilla's 25+(numbers
are somewhat misleading because of shared libs, segments shared with the
Xserver, etc, but still comparable), so it's probably more likely to work.
Good luck.

> $ cat /etc/ld.so.conf /usr/X11R6/lib

No, /usr/lib (and /lib, and maybe others) were compiled into ld.so. the config
file serves to add others after the fact.

> However I noticed that there are libraries in /usr/lib. Do those
> needed need to be added as well?

> Sorry for these newbie questions, Ramprasad
That's fine, they have too be asked by everyone at least once :-)


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Re: Updated Mozilla M13 Release Build Available

[Nelson Abramson]

Kevin Puetz wrote:

> Before I answer thes, are there any people with positive reports? I need to
> hear from you if it installed perfectly as well as if you had problems. Please
> be sure you include me directly in the replies to this message. I'm cc'ing the
> list in case anyone else is interested in simplebrowser.

I have your original post of mozilla 13 (after getting the new libstdc++ and even
the wierd libelf symlink fix..)
There are some bugs, but it's working fine otherwise..

--Nelson Abramson


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Re: Updated Mozilla M13 Release Build Available

[Kevin Puetz]

> Kevin Puetz wrote:
> Before I answer thes, are there any people with positive reports? I
> need to
> hear from you if it installed perfectly as well as if you had
> problems. Please
> be sure you include me directly in the replies to this message. I'm
> cc'ing the
> list in case anyone else is interested in simplebrowser.

> I have your original post of mozilla 13 (after getting the new
> libstdc++ and even the wierd libelf symlink fix..) There are some
> bugs, but it's working fine otherwise..

> --Nelson Abramson

OK people, please cut it out with the libelf hack :-). I statically linked
that one lib in (that's what the update last night was), as LinuxPPC appears
to not have it. I need to know that the updated version posted to
<http://www.public.iastate.edu/~puetzk> late last night now works on a vanilla
LinuxPPC system (+libstdc++-2.10) without any other messing around. Can anyone
give me a yes/no?


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Re: Updated Mozilla M13 Release Build Available

[Martin Costabel]

Kevin Puetz wrote:

> OK people, please cut it out with the libelf hack :-). I statically linked
> that one lib in (that's what the update last night was), as LinuxPPC appears
> to not have it. I need to know that the updated version posted to
> <http://www.public.iastate.edu/~puetzk> late last night now works on a vanilla
> LinuxPPC system (+libstdc++-2.10) without any other messing around. Can anyone
> give me a yes/no?

Yes.

Well, I don't know about vanilla since I am always messing around, but I
didn't have to do anything to make this run. Just tar zxf and then
mozilla. As others found, it is almost usable.

--
Martin

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Re: Updated Mozilla M13 Release Build Available

[Nelson Abramson]

Kevin Puetz wrote:

> OK people, please cut it out with the libelf hack :-). I statically linked
> that one lib in (that's what the update last night was), as LinuxPPC appears
> to not have it. I need to know that the updated version posted to
> <http://www.public.iastate.edu/~puetzk> late last night now works on a vanilla
> LinuxPPC system (+libstdc++-2.10) without any other messing around. Can anyone
> give me a yes/no?

Okay, after your whining about the libelf.so library ;-) I redownloaded the new
version and it seems to work atleast as well as the other one.  It starts and
runs anways.

HTH
--Nelson Abramson


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Mozilla M13 Release Build Available

[Kevin Puetz]

Hello all, and good news!

Linux/PowerPC is now a working mozilla platform, thanks to the efforts of
Franz Sirl, waterson, and others. I have a release build available at
<http://www.public.iastate.edu/~puetzk/mozilla-ppc-unknown-linux-gnu-M13.tar.gz
> This shouls be appearing on mozilla.org soon, but first I need some testers
to verify that it works correctly on LinuxPPC and other distributions (it was
built on a Debian/PPC system). After first installing it, it needs to be run
as root first so that it can create its component.reg file - after that it
should be fine for all users.

Note that I am not subscribed to the linuxppc-dev list, please CC me with any
replies.


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Re: Updated Mozilla M13 Release Build Available

[Kevin Puetz]

In response to the problems that some of you had with my Mozilla M13 build,
here is an updated one. If there are no problems with it now, it will be
submitted and I will announce when the mozilla.org tarball is up to date.

same place as last time, I just updated the file <http://www.public.iastate.edu
/~puetzk/>

You will need to go to ftp.linuxppc.com/linuxppc-1999/software/updates and get
libstdc++-2.10.0 (and, of course, any dependencies it has). You should not
need to use the funky ld-hack to make libelf.so anymore - if you did so,
delete it. You should not need to run this version as root before running it
as a normal user.

If anyone could verify that this runs fine, please email me so that I can get
mozilla.org's FTP site up to date.

As before, I'm not on the linuxppc-dev list, so please CC me.


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