Re: Netscape

[awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>> Hmmm.  What version of libc?  Does an /sbin/ldconfig finish happily?
>> What's your enviroment look like?
> Yes, it does finish happily.
> libc-2.0.7.so
> libc-so.5.4.46
> libg++-2-libc6.0-1-2.8.2.so
> libg++.so.2.7.2.8

Do you have any enviroment variables starting with LD (env | grep 
^LD)?
Are you starting the netscape binary directly or with their shell 
script?
Have you tried strace-ing it?

>>RedHat! RedHat! RedHat!  Except no substitutes.  I tried Mandrake,
>>most things work, it is faster, but occasionally I found an app that
>>would not run (seg Fault), but on Redhat it worked find with roughly
>>the same servion of everything.  I suspect their "optimizing" 
compile
>>introduces subtle bugs (compilers can do that).
>Hell, even I can use an "-O" switch. :) The kernel, 2.0.38, is i586
>optimized and hasn't a hiccup (if I read the compiler msgs aright).

Mandrake does a lot more than just -O.  It was my understanding that 
Mandrake used the pgc compiler (not gcc), which generates "optimized" 
code for target processors.  Also I know from experience that high -O 
levels are very bad for some packages.  The Mandrake I tried was 6.x 
something, and I know they are now on 7.x, so possibly they have 
resolved some of these issues.