Re: Netscape

[awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>> 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?
> No.
> Shell script? The only executables in the directory are
> libnullplugin-dynmotif.so, netscape, netscape-dynmotif, and vreg.
> Yes. It loads libs, issues some brk statements and seg faults.

There is usually a "netscape" shell script that lands in /usr/bin that 
actually starts netscape.  By default mosts systems (or at least mine) 
do not look for library files anywhere other than specified in 
/etc/ld.so.conf,  by creating an enviroment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH a 
user can add to the list of dirs an app will attempt to load libraries 
from.  It appears that netscape creates something like this for itself 
based upon the MOZILLA_HOME enviroment variable set in the 
/usr/bin/netscape script.  If your not using the script it may have 
something to do with this.  Only a guess though.

>It says in the README that some libc incompatibilities are known to 
exist.
><shrug> I probably should just upgrade. I was just curious if everyone
>else's older versions, pre Moz.6, sucked this much, too.

I've always had pretty good luck (except 4.5, now have 4.61), but they 
have gotten better lately.  It also seems to help to have a robust 
font pool.

>>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
>Hmm. Not for the AMD fans among us, eh...?

pgc supports the K6, my proxy server uses squid compiled specifically 
for the K6, and it is faster,  but I don't think I'd trust it with my 
system libraries, etc...  That is the only K6 server I have, as my 
experience with AMD has been sub-optimal to say the least.