[18573] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.17: netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sun Dec 3 19:51:59 2000
To: Karl Ramm <kcr@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 03 Dec 2000 19:51:53 -0500
In-Reply-To: Karl Ramm's message of "Sun, 03 Dec 2000 09:28:20 -0500"
Message-Id: <87itp1m2ja.fsf@mit.edu>
<daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> (Karl Ramm) writes:
> If you download the linux 2.2 / libc6 version of netscape 4.7.5 from
> ftp.netscape.com, it works fine.
>
> What should have happened:
>
> Either someone should've given up on flash, found a libc5 version of the
> plugin, or given up on supporting netscape on libc5 systems; they're
> definitely in the deserves-to-lose category at this point.
IIRC, the version you suggest requires glibc 2.1, which means it
breaks on machines running the SIPB release based on Red Hat 5.2.
Given that that release is still (nominally) supported, it would be
poor to break Netscape for it, so your plan would require more work
for the infoagents maintainers than you might think.
--
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
