[plug] Netscape & Stability ...

Christian christian at global.net.au
Thu Jul 1 21:40:19 WST 1999


Trevor Phillips wrote:
> If I give in and resort to libc5, I'll run a few comparative tests. ^_^
> >From memory, the glibc2 versions load faster. I was under the impression the
> libc5 ones are statically linked, so slower to load, yet not requiring specific
> .so libs, but don't quote me on it...

They're both statically linked against motif but otherwise:
ophelia:~$ ldd `which netscape`
	libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4000e000)
	libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x40050000)
	libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x40059000)
	libXmu.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6 (0x4006e000)
	libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 (0x40080000)
	libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6 (0x4008e000)
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x40099000)
	libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40137000)
	libc.so.5 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libc.so.5 (0x4013a000)
	libg++.so.27 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libg++.so.27 (0x401f8000)
	libstdc++.so.27 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libstdc++.so.27 (0x40230000)
	libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x40262000)

Regards,

Christian.

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