"It looks like the Haiku Webkit port initiated by Ryan Leavengood has entered a productive second stage of development, and thanks to the recent work by one of the new project team members, Andrea 'xeD' Anzani, tangible progress has been made as shown by the recent screenshot showing the HaikuLauncher application rendering bebits.com. I was curious about his work, so I went directly to the source and asked a few questions to Andrea; here are his answers." On a related note, Haiku now has a new nightly build archive.
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The stubs was a trick to get round the limited addon memory (32MB for all apps) that BeOS had. Additional libs will be loaded to that memory, but by only loading stubs that were linked to the real libs none of that to limited memory was used.
If it don't find the stub library it loads the real library, which is ok under Haiku.
Btw IMO don't edit the startup-script. Repackage:
http://community.livejournal.com/bezilla/255563.html
Also this is what you can expect:
http://community.livejournal.com/bezilla/257711.html
Edited 2007-12-25 09:35
Member since:2005-07-07
@TQH, umccullough
Thanks for the information. The launch must be failing after that, then. I don't suppose this debug output gives any clue?
Loaded symbols for /boot/beos/apps/firefox/components/libxpinstall.so
[tcsetpgrp failed in terminal_inferior: Invalid Argument]
[Switching to team ./firefox (175) thread firefox (175)]
0x0165353d in PR_NewPollableEvent () from /boot/home/config/lib/libnspr4.so
Chris
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2005-07-07
Yeah it's really, really annoying... I'm trying to find out who added it on #haiku and see if they can restrict the animation to the header img or something, as it makes reading the text quite annoying at the moment :/.
What version of Bah Humbug are you using? ;-)
Looking forward to this. I've just spent the morning trying to get the BONE version of Firefox running on my Haiku partition. I've edited UserSetupEnvironment but it's moaning about .so.stub files. And of course, I hear it doesn't run for long even when it runs...