Subject: Re: Mozilla@sparc?
To: NetBSD/sparc Discussion List <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/25/2002 11:02:59
At 16:52 Uhr -0400 24.6.2002, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>[ On Monday, June 24, 2002 at 22:02:51 (+0200), Hauke Fath wrote: ]
>I'm assuming you're using /bin/sh or /bin/ksh and that you got that
>number with "echo $?"....
>
>... in which case it might be an errno number: 11 == EDEADLK.

tcsh and ${status}.

>> ?? The browser is the default. I can start the mail client 'only', and it
>> stays up. I can even start the Profile Manager, switch to offline mode, and
>> the browser stays up. Then, I can switch back to online mode and surf
>> (Apple, IBM, Netscape, even SAP) as long as I stay off of mozilla.org. Of
>> all sites, that brings the lizard down.  =8|
>
>Where's your home directory mounted?

Locally (ffs). I toyed around with amd a while back, but my understanding
of the docs and amd's actual behaviour differed too much.

>Have you used Mozilla with the same profile on an i386 machine?

No i386 here but a decommissioned '486. No match for the lizard. Though
maybe I shouldn't say that - I've built Mozilla 0.8.2 on a Macintosh Quadra
700. Comes up, eventually.  ;)

>Have you tried creating a fresh new profile on the sparc?

Yep.

>(I found that with 0.9.x I couldn't share profiles safely between sparc
>and i386....)

Endianness? 'All the world's an i386'?

>> Works in devel/ddd on the X server machine; works in XEmacs on the ss10.
>> Does not work in Ethereal on the ss10. Does Mozilla use GTK? That might be
>> a pattern...
>
>I don't know about GTK being the cause, but the pattern fits that far anyway:
>
>Information for mozilla-1.0:
>[...]
>gtk+>=1.2.8
>
>Information for ethereal-0.9.4:
>[...]
>gtk+>=1.2.8

Mhm. I shall try that at work on i386 (pretty solid Mozilla 0.9.9
installation there).

	hauke


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