Greetings.

These files are binary packages of the components needed to run an
experimental build of the mozilla brower, for the BSD/OS v4.2
operating system, both sparc and x86 versions.

The files you will need to get:

mozilla-i386-pc-bsdi4.2.tar.gz        -- mozilla distribution for the x86
libs-i386-pc-bsdi4.2.tar.gz           -- gdk_pixbuf distribution for the x86

mozilla-sparc-unknown-bsdi4.2.tar.gz  -- mozilla distribution for the sparc
libs-sparc-unknown-bsdi4.2.tar.gz     -- gdk_pixbuf distribution for the sparc

You will need MORE THAN 40MB of free disk space (plus whatever storage
is required for the .tar.gz files) to fully unpack the files.

Here's an example of how to unpack a release on a 4.2 machine:

cd /usr/local/lib
gzcat < libs-i386-pc-bsdi4.2.tar.gz
ldconfig

mkdir /usr/local/mozilla
cd /usr/local/mozilla
gzcat < mozilla-i386-pc-bsdi4.2.tar.gz | tar xvf -

To run the binary, you will need to do the following things.
First, MAKE SURE (as mentioned in the Release Notes) that you can write
into the directory where you installed mozilla.  This is VERY important.

1) cd into the mozilla directory that was unpacked:

# cd /usr/local/mozilla

2) make sure your resource limits are large enough to deal with mozilla

# unlimit

3) run the "./mozilla" program

# ./mozilla

The first time that the browser is run, it will create a
components.req file -- this contains all the registration
information for the shared libraries and services that mozilla
will need to operate.

As time permits, I hopefully will have a few chances to update
these binaries.  If you find a bug, please visit
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org, read their guidelines for submitting
a good bug report and then submit a bug report.

I am not able to provide much, if any, support for these snapshots.
However, I would like to know if you have success (or not) running
these binaries.  Remember, this is not even BETA software, with no
warranty implied or offered.  If if crashes your machine, deletes
your files or makes you owe back taxes, that's your problem, not
mine.

Make sure you read the release notes for the correct release of mozilla --
there are several special needs that are well documented there.  In
particular, the install directory needs to be writeable by the
users running the program!

Best of luck.

-Kurt (lidl@pix.net preferred for mail about Mozilla)


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Build Notes:
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The computers used for building these releases are stock BSD/OS 4.2
(with patches), with libIDL 0.6.8 installed on top of the base
OS.  I also have installed the gdk-pixbuf library (version 0.8.0)
which is mysteriously missing from BSD/OS.  Unfortunately, you'll need
to hack on the install stuff to get that library to build correctly.

I used the following for my .mozconfig file when I built this release:

ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --enable-strip-libs
ac_add_options --disable-pedantic
ac_add_options --enable-nspr-autoconf
ac_add_options --with-gtk
ac_add_options --with-pthreads
ac_add_options --with-jpeg
ac_add_options --with-png
ac_add_options --with-zlib

On the x86 machines:
ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2 -mcpu=pentium -march=pentium"

On the sparc machines:
ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2 -mcpu=v8 -march=v8"

There is no support for the PSM2 and NSS modules (which would add SSL support),
because it doesn't build properly using autoconf.