I emerged netscape-navigator 4.79-r1 but could not run it. $ netscape /opt/netscape/netscape: relocation error: /opt/netscape/netscape: symbol _res, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference I hear there is an updated version to netscape-navigator on bug 16605 and bug 31739. May I ask that these also be given due consideration? Many thanks. $ emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.6.0-test9-bk8) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test9-bk8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs notitles buildpkg" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.linux.no/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://www.fhh.opensource-mirror.de/gentoo.org/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.caliu.info/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss avi cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg mad motif mpeg ncurses pdflib png quicktime truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb berkdb slang readline aalib svga X sdl tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python imlib oggvorbis gtk opengl cdr acpi acpi4linux apache2 dvd dvdr faad fbcon gtk2 imap java javascript maildir mmx nocd nptl openal php ppds sse tiff xml -apm -arts -crypt -gdbm -gpm -kde -gnome -libg++ -mikmod -nls -qt -spell -esd"
Please close this bug. Given that I'm now posting this message from netscape navigator 4.79-r1 after a fresh install of gentoo on the same machine this bug is no longer reproducible. I guess we'll never know what the problem was other than to say that it was a library issue.
okay, I close this bug as WORKSFORME.