Re: Another case of Java Plugin

From: Christopher Nehren (apeiron+usenet_at_coitusmentis.info)
Date: 10/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 01:06:47 GMT

On 2005-10-27, Álvaro Jurado Cuevas scribbled these
curious markings:
> Well. I've been two months trying to works java plugin with Firefox. Firefox
> from ports and plugin from linux-sun-jdk.1.4.2. Maybe, in order to get
> errors, that the missing libraries that call FBSD to running plugin
> (libc.so.6, libdl.so.2 and ld-linux.so.2 all in /usr/compat/linux and
> linux.ko loaded), miss because firefox is native and the plugin is
> linux-emulation. Ok, I've seen the handbook and we tried to compile java
> natively. I went to ~/ports/java/jdk15, downloaded SCSL packages
> (cumplimented the *** form for the license :p) etc etc... :

...

Why are you trying to use a Linux JDK with a native browser?
That will never, ever, ever work. Install a native JDK, link the
libjavaplugin_oji.so file to /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins ,
restart your browser, and away you go.

Best Regards,
Christopher Nehren 

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