[18580] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.17: netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Mon Dec 4 11:14:45 2000
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 11:14:42 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Karl Ramm <kcr@mit.edu>
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On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Karl Ramm wrote:
> The flash plugin uses __bzero, which is defined by linux libc 6, but not
> linux libc 5 (easily verifiable with nm). Unfortunately the version of
> netscape 4.75 in the infoagents locker for linux is not the "supported by
> netscape inc." release for Linux 2.2 / libc 6, but evidently one of the
> "unsupported" linux 2.0 / libc 5 builds.
Correct. We tried both versions of Netscape - the 2.0 and the 2.2 Linux -
and waded through a week of plugin incompatibilities before we settled on
the 2.0 version as the one which ran for the highest number of Linux users
and with the fewest plugin difficulties. Neither one runs plugins
perfectly, because of a mishmash of version incompatibilities. However,
the crucial plugin - the only one which academic needs require - is
RealAudio, and that was the deciding factor. It doesn't run properly with
the 2.2 Linux Netscape, at least not in my tests.
That said, we have a host of Flash problems with Linux in the "known" file
and now that I know it's definitely a compatibility problem, I'll try to
dig up a (now considered obsolete by the maker) libc5 version of Flash. In
my original set of tests, Flash ran fine with the 2.0 Linux Netscape, but
I didn't test it very hard.
-Todd
