Netscape RH

[Pavel Kankovsky]

On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Martin Kafara wrote:

> Marne shanim Netscape pro RedHat...

1) Netscape Navigator ve forme *.rpm asi nikde nenajdete (takze je potreba
   rucne rozbalit netscape-v30-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz
   a soubory z nej rucne umistit do patricnych adresaru v /usr/local nebo
   kdekoli jinde, kde se zlibi)

2) NN 3.0 (nebo aspon interpret Javy) ma takovou "vlastnost", ze dealokuje
   pamet, co si nealokoval (nebo tak nejak), coz pusobi jiste problemy s
   konkretni konfiguraci libc, ktera je v Colgate. To se da udajne obejit
   nasledujicim zpusobem:

The new malloc code in libc-5.3.12 gives Netscape Java indigestion.
Either replace the shipped libc with
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/RPMS/libc-gnumalloc-5.3.12-5.i386.rpm
(use --force to install)  or just override the malloc code, by wrapping
netscape in a script. A shared library of just the old malloc code
prepared by Steve Dunham <dunham na gdl.msu.edu>  from libc 5.4.7 sources is
available at http://lalaland.cl.msu..edu/~dunham/out/gnumalloc.so

It can be used with the standard script
#!/bin/sh
export LD_PRELOAD=/lib/gnumalloc.so
exec /path/to/real/netscape $*

   Osobne bych preferoval druhy zpusob.
   Ale nezkousel jsem to.

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak (troja.mff.cuni.cz network administration)