[3347] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Netscape and Java with Colgate, once and for all
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Burrell)
Fri Nov 8 04:25:43 1996
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Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 01:21:10 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961107182601.4776A-100000@karpes.stu.rpi.edu> from "Simon Karpen" at Nov 7, 96 06:29:19 pm
From: Ian Burrell <iburrell@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: iburrell@leland.Stanford.EDU
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>
> put libc.so.5.2.18 in the directory /usr/local/lib/netscape/old-libc
>
You can put libc.so.5.2.18 in /lib, the standard place, as long as you
load it with LD_PRELOAD. It can be a good idea to keep around old
libc for other misbehaving programs and accidently deleting the
current one.
> then creat the file /usr/local/bin/netscape that contains:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/netscape/old-libc/libc.so.5.2.18
> /usr/local/bin/netscape.bin
>
> make /usr/local/bin/netscape executable
> that's it.
>
> if it isn't already, this REALLY needs to be in the FAQ. It is currently
> pretty close to redhat-specific, as nothing else yet ships with libc >
> 5.2.x.
>
- Ian
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