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Dynamic-Motif version of Linux Netscape 4.61
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Thu Sep 30 17:08:14 1999
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 17:07:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Normally I'd send this to web-agents, but it's Linux-specific.
In the i386_linux2 area of infoagents, you'll notice that there are two
netscape 4.61 binaries. (I believe this is the case for 4.05 as well.) One
of them is called 'netscape-dynMotif'. The other is just 'netscape'. The
latter is considerably bigger than the former.
I am guessing from the name and size difference that the former links to
the Motif libraries dynamically somehow and the latter has static Motif
libraries compiled in. (I'm guessing, because what I don't know about
Motif would fill a book.)
Right now - since our wrapper script only knows how to launch a binary
called 'netscape' - the dynamic version is not being used. I don't even
know if it's usable.
My question is, would it be better for us to be running the dynamic
version? (Note that the linux2 directory is also serving as the
Netscape 4.61 for linux3 - and linux1, for what that's worth. So if
changing to the dynamic version would break either linux2 or linux3 use,
never mind.)
Basically I don't know who would be able to run the dynamic version, in
what circumstances, and what the script would have to do to enable it to
work right. Any comments?
-Todd
