ftp://ftp.eng.us.uu.net/lidl/mozilla/

Greetings.

These files are binary packages of the components needed to run
an experimental build of the mozilla brower, for the BSD/OS v4.0.1
operating system.  You MUST have a modern GTK/GDK library installation
to run this version of the browser.  You can get a binary copy
of these required libraries at this site.

(Due to changes in the C++ compiler between BSD/OS 4.0.1 and 4.1,
you WILL NOT be able to run a BSD/OS 4.0.1 compiled version of the
browser under BSD/OS 4.1.  At some point, these snapshots will
built on a BSD/OS 4.1 based system.  A note of this change will be
made at that time, in this README.mozilla file.)

To unpack and use these binaries, you will need to retrieve at least
two of the tar files:

gtk.bin.tar.gz                -- GTK/GDK/glib libraries that are needed
XXX-i386-pc-bsdi4.0.1.tar.gz  -- tarball of the mozilla distribution

(M13 is the Milestone 13 build, for example.)

You will need MORE THAN 30MB of free disk space (plus whatever storage
is required for the .tar.gz files) to fully unpack the files.

To use these packages, you will need to unpack them all, probably as
root.  First, unpack the gtk libraries:

cd /usr/local
gzcat < gtk.bin.tar.gz | tar xvf -
ldconfig

The 'ldconfig' will force the system to recognize new libraries that
have been installed into /usr/local/lib.  (If you have removed the
entry for /usr/local/lib from /etc/ld.so.conf for some reason, you'll
want to put it back.)

gzcat < mozilla-i386-pc-bsdi4.0.1.tar.gz | tar xvf -

To run the binary, you will need to do the following things:

1) cd into the bin directory that was unpacked:
   cd bin
2) run the "./mozilla" program

I will hopefully be updating these binaries some as time permits.
If you find a bug, please visit http://bugzilla.mozilla.org
and read their guidelines for submitting good bug reports.

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.

Best of luck.

-Kurt

NOTE 1:  Some people have reported problems trying out this software
on a not completely patched 4.0.1 machine.  It works OK for me,
but I have all the patches applied to the systems where I am using
the pthreads support in my libc.so.  I have packaged up a current
libc.so from my machine, which you should be able to stick into
the lib directory that gets unpacked, and I think the browser will
pick up that copy of libc.so in preference to the normal libc.so
on the machine.

Note 2:  If you want the sources to the glib/gtk/gdk libraries that
were used to build those libraries, look in the gtk.src.tar.gz file.
You should be able to rebuild the libraries from those sources, should
you desire to do so.