Netscape 3.0 and Java

["C. Oda" <craig@example.com>]

Netscape 3.0 has a bug which prevents the use of Java with 
the newer C libs.

To get it to work, I've done the following:

1) make a directory for netscape
   # mkdir /usr/local/lib/netscape

2) find some old C libs on your machine
niji:/usr/local/lib/netscape# ls -l /lib/libc.*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           13 Mar 24  1996 /lib/libc.so.4 ->
libc.so.4.7.2*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       634880 Apr 29  1995 /lib/libc.so.4.7.2*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           13 May 19 17:03 /lib/libc.so.5 ->
libc.so.5.3.9*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       562683 May 19  1995 /lib/libc.so.5.0.9*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        579395 Apr  6  1996 /lib/libc.so.5.3.9*
niji:/usr/local/lib/netscape# 

3) make a symbolic link to the old lib
   # ln -s /lib/libc.so.5.0.0 libc.so.5

4) make a trivial shell script to load lib for Netscape
niji:/usr/local/lib/netscape# cat netscape.sh 
#!/bin/sh
libdir=/usr/local/lib/netscape
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$libdir; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
exec /usr/local/bin/netscape

5) execute shell whenever you want to run Netscape


Regards,
Craig

   

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