Firefox on -current dumps core.

[John-Mark Gurney]

Patrick Bowen wrote this message on Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 19:54 -0500:
> John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> >Patrick Bowen wrote this message on Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 19:33 -0500:
> >  
> >>Here's my situation. I drive a truck, and the truck stops have wireless, 
> >>but no wired, and there's a secure login. So I have to have a working 
> >>browser to get on the web to do updates/upgrades.
> >>    
> >
> >why not get lynx or w3m (I know one if not both support https) compiled
> >staticly, and then you don't have to worry about the gui browser issue?
> >
> >  
> I tried lynx from the RELEASE cdrom, and it didn't support https. At 
> least not that version. Links does however. I'll look at w3m, also.

look at the lynx-ssl port...

> How do I go about statically compiling the non-gui browser? Just "make" 
> with a knob turned on or what?

w/ a clean port I believe you can do:
make LDFLAGS=-static

but I haven't tested that..  building stand alone, you copy the cc/gcc
command that builds the final binary and add the -static option...

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