Subject: Re: Mozilla on m68k?
To: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/08/2001 01:52:06
At 5:03 Uhr +0200 7.4.2001, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 12:49:23AM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote:
>> Well, it builds; both the 0.8 and the 0.8.1 pkg fail very late in the
>> _installation_ process.
>
>Of course.  That's the first time the executables are actually fired up.
>
>Just because something `builds', that doesn't mean it's correct, or that
>the linker or other compiler bits are correct.

You don't say!!

;)

>There's a very serious bug in the way m68k/a.out works that caused me to
>punt on this and wait for the m68k platforms to move to ELF.

That may take some time for mac68k.

Actually, the main reason why I am trying to build Mozilla is to see if
bin/9369 is still relevant. And curiosity about just _how_ slow the thing
will be...

	hauke

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