Re: Fetching NetSurf

In message <mpro.mbxx0u0xzcwjo0fxx.tim@powys.org>
Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@powys.org> wrote:

> On 14 Oct at 20:02, Alan Leighton <alan.leighton2@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>> In message <52dea12cebchris@chris-johnson.org.uk>
>> cj <chris@chris-johnson.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <52de9a64e1riscos@gotadsl.co.uk>,
>>> Richard Ashbery <riscos@gotadsl.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> Peter - what I didn't clarify is that John's utility and curl
>>>> works correctly on the Iyonix (RISC OS 5.18) but not on BB (RISC
>>>> OS 5.19). I get the same "segmentation fault" you highlighted
>>>> earlier.
>>
>>> The current version of cURL will not run on the BB. As mentioned by
>>> Frank, use wget instead - that works fine on the BB (ARMini).
>>
>>> I guess cURL simply needs a recompile with ARMv7 friendly flags.
>>
>> I run an Iyonix 5.18 and I hope one day some one will make sense of
>> all this fetching stuff and how people like me can make use of it.

> Well at the end all I did was:

> 1. Make a new Directory
> 2. Put Curl in it
> 3. Put Fetch_NS in it
> 4. Double click on Curl
> 5. Double click on Fetch_NS

> and after quite a few nano seconds, an archive appeared in that
> Directory with a name such as 463/zip and containing a new Netsurf, with
> installation instructions in the Readme file: Basically just run the
> Netsurf within.

> This was on a VRPC.

>>
>> Totally lost from Middlesbrough,

> I see your MP has just died, you must be bereft.

Stewart was a nice guy, he opened our Hope Foundation Adult Training
Centre and was very encouraging. 'In the midst of life we are in
death' as the BCP says,

Cheers

Alan

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