Re: resolver problem with Opera

From: Karel J. Bosschaart (karelj_at_kayjay.xs4all.nl)
Date: 05/24/04

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To: Stephan van Beerschoten <stephanb@whacky.net>

    On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:25:46PM +0200, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote:
    > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:12:16PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
    > >"Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@kayjay.xs4all.nl> writes:
    > >>They are not present. Adding host.conf solved the problem! Although
    > >>I found a reference to nsswitch.conf in the Opera binary, it seems to
    > >>be ignored: I do have an nsswitch.conf now, generated at boot time from
    > >>host.conf, but removing the host.conf makes Opera behave the old way.
    > >
    > >that's because Opera is a 4.x binary, and the 4.x libc doesn't know
    > >about nsswitch.conf.
    >
    > Isn't it evenly true that Opera is a linux binary and that you could copy
    > this file into /compat/linux/etc to make sure it doesn't negatively affect
    > your FreeBSD? (Correct me if I'm wrong here).

    Not in my case because I'm using the 'native' (4.x FreeBSD binary) version
    of Opera:

    [karelj@athlon]/usr/X11R6/share/opera/bin> file opera
    opera: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 4.6, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

    Karel.
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