Re: running DU binaries (Netscape) on Alpha/Linux

[MoT <Sebastien Villemot ens fr>]

On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Designer 7 wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> 
> Ok... I wonder if I'm missing anything... because I've tried 5 different 
> versions of Netscape (3.x 4.x for OSF3.2/DU4.0, communicator/navigator 
> and all permutations of those I could find)... and everytime I get a 
> core dump with Floating Point Exception. 
> 
> I've used kernels 2.1.131 with various ac patches up to ac11, and right 
> now I'm on 2.2.0pre3. In all cases, I've compiled with the following 
> options set to YES:
> 
> CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
> CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
> CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y
> CONFIG_BINFMT_EM86=y
> 
> Is there some combinations of these that don't go well together? I've 
> noticed on this list that several people have had some success (at least 
> more than I have) running DU Netscape. By the way, Netscape does try to 
> start (created a .netscape directory) but then core dumps. So, I do have 
> the necessary files from DU 4.0... or at least it's not complaining 
> about not finding some lib. 
> 
> The exact error message is:
> 
> Floating point exception (core dumped)
> 

Try the option "Kernel FP software completion" in the Kernel hacking menu
(in menuconfig). It don't precisely know its exact functionnality but
without it I've the same problem :)

	MoT