The purpose of this page is to diagnose build problems with Mozilla and Netscape 6 for Solaris. If you have experienced a problem, there is a chance you will see a description of that problem here. Note that this is not a general troubleshooting page for Netscape 6 on Windows, Linux, or Macintosh, nor is it intended to help with Netscape Communicator 4.X.
Many thanks to: Chris Mcafee, Dan Mosedale, Ashutosh Kulkarni and Rich Burridge.
For troubleshooting tips for using the browser on the Solaris platform, please visit this page.
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| Problem: I am using Solaris 2.5.1 or Solaris 2.6, and Netscape 6 will not launch. The error says I am missing librt.so.1. |
Solution: Netscape 6 for Solaris is supported only on Solaris 7 or later. The library in question is not available until Solaris 7. Netscape 6 for Solaris as produced by Sun will not run on versions of Solaris prior to Solaris 7. If you really need the Mozilla browser technology on your old version of Solaris, you might try nightly builds of the Mozilla open source browser, which are built by mozilla.org and run on Solaris 2.5.1 and later. | |||||||||||||
| Problem: Is there a recommended compiler? |
Solution: There are four compilers that are known to work: gcc-2.7.2.3, egcs, WS4.2, or WS5.0. Each has good and bad features, as described below. There is no clear leader right now.
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| Problem: Is there a patch for use with Workshop 5.0 compilers? |
Solution: When using the WorkShop 5.0 compilers, be sure to get a recent copy of the compiler patches from Sun. At the time of this writing, for 32-bit machines, this means at least the following patches:
107289-03
107295-01
107311-07
107357-05
107740-01
107742-01
On Solaris 2.6 with WorkShop 5.0, the C++ runtime library patch (105591, rev -07 or later) is also required. Anyone who wants to run the code you've compiled will need this patch as well. |
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| Problem: Is there a patch for use with Workshop (Forte) 6.0 Update 1 compilers? |
Solution: Yes, absolutely. Use the following required patch for WorkShop (Forte) 6.0 Update 1 compilers:
SPARC: 109513-02, 109508-03, 109505-04
Intel: 109514-02, 109509-03, 109502-02
Here is a link to Workshop (Forte) patches: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/xprod-WorkShop&nav=pub-patches.
Also, for access to the Forte 6 Update 2 EA (Early Access) release, please follow this link: http://access1.sun.com/fortedevprod/. |
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| Problem: Is there a way to switch between two compilers? |
Solution: If both a gnu compiler and non-gnu compiler are in your path, the gnu compiler takes precedence in the preconfig test. To override this, or to pick from among different compilers you have in your path, set the environment variables CC and CXX to point to the compiler you want to use:
# Example to override gcc install with WS5.0 using the WS 4.x
# compatibility flag
setenv CC /usr/local/workshop/SUNWspro/bin/cc
setenv CXX "/usr/local/workshop/SUNWspro/bin/CC -compat=4"
./configure
Additionally, if you are using one of the WorkShop compilers and have your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable set, be sure that the location of the SUNWspro libraries is closer to the front of LD_LIBRARY_PATH than the location of any GNU g++ libraries. Otherwise, the build may fail trying to pull in the wrong libiostream. |
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| Problem: What cross-compiler plugin/module compatibility, vtables, and name-mangling issues exist? |
Solution: These issues are still being identified. See Bugzilla bug 20297 for some discussion. |
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| Problem: What can be done about a "Gdk-WARNING **: can not create input context with specified input style." error message? |
Solution: If the error message is a result of clicking on input fields when the input method is disabled, install one of the following OS patches:
For patch access, access http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/patch-access |
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