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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> The fact that Netscape 3.04 fails to work on Xvesa is another
> nail in the Xvesa coffin.  Unless I can find a reasonable
> browser to run on Xvesa, I will have to dump it.  At the moment
> I am trying to compile Dillo for BL3.  If that fails on Xvesa,
> I might try BrowseX or links2.
>
> > I'm guessing that since Firefox has been developed using a
> > different, newer library, it would be very difficult - if not
> > impossible - to compile it for BL3 (libc5).
>
> The library issue can be avoided by compiling a static version,
> but the Xvesa issue is much more difficult to cope with.

If it's any consolation or help, both dillo and links-hacked (the latter
is pretty much the same as Links2) work under Xvesa in DSL.  Same goes for
Firefox (0.8).  If it would help, I could try out BrowseX on a DSL install
I have and see if I can get it to work.  Let me know.

James

PS  I don't suppose compiling Netscape from source (is it even possible,
i.e., are source packages available?) would make any difference?