I’ve been put in charge of installing Mozilla and making it available to all of our SGi and Linux systems. This has come in light that Netscape and SGI no longer support Netscapes older than version 6 and, of course, our training dept. has written a page for people to sign up for classes that only works in IE and Netscape 6.0 and above.

The Linux version went well because I just had to download the binayr. Everything was statically linked and self-contined, so no fuss, no muss.

Now the SGI build is a different story. First, the only binary they support is for version 1.1b. Nothing newer. Not to mention the only binayr I could get (the 1.1b version) was using shared objects, which meant I had to install a bunch of crap if I wanted to work. Not possible in our environment.

Now I’m not my 30th attempt to build this bastard in about 3 days. I’ve had to installe 3rd party tools (self-contained libraries and executeables) and statically link everything because the symbol table gets full if I try shared objects. If I bump up the maximum size of the symbol table, it compiles, but I get rld mapping errors because it can’t find the libraries.

GGGRRR……..It’s been going since about 11:00 am. We’ll see if it finishes. If it doesn’t, those who are offended by harsh language may want to avoind my site for a little while.