[2578] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: More 5.2 preparation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Feb 11 02:35:33 1999
To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: warlord@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Feb 1999 22:15:59 EST."
<199902110315.WAA19865@StarbaseZero.ne.mediaone.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 02:35:16 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> (I think Irix comes with netscape in /usr/bin. And that's 50% of
> the Athena supported platforms. :-)
IRIX ships a /usr/bin/X11/netscape, and a few programs even have that
path hardcoded. It's a real pain for us because users get a slightly
different netscape program which plays with the same files in their
homedir as the Athena version but doesn't do all the nice Athena
things like set up a cache in /var/tmp. Plus it tends to be a
different version. So the release tracks over /usr/bin/X11/netscape
with an attach-and-run script for the infoagents locker. (People can
run the native version as /os/usr/bin/X11/netscape if they really want
to.)
I'd advise against installing the native netscape, at least not
without hacking things somehow to make it install under a different
name.
