Currently no Java for Linux-Mozilla on 4-Stable?

Martin Cracauer cracauer at cons.org
Tue Jan 27 07:42:45 PST 2004


Panagiotis Astithas wrote on Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:14:43AM +0200: 
> >>Basically you have to use the correct plugin, depending on the way your 
> >>mozilla is compiled. I don't use the linux version myself, so I can't be 
> >>more specific.
> > 
> > 
> > Well, it the same issue on Linux and FreeBSD, you have to have your
> > binary compiled with the same compiler as you plugin (couldn't these
> > people use a C wrapper around the plugin interface?).
> 
> What I meant to suggest is that you use the correct plugin from the 
> linux jdk's directory. Now that I located a machine on which I have the 
> linux jdk installed, here are the choices:
> /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> Did you try with both?

Yes, with the linux-mozilla-firebird as of Sunday, the first gets a
C++ name mangling error and the second starts fine but runs into a
segfault after starting an applet, leaving a hotspot problem message
on the terminal.

Note that I use 4-9STABLE, people who reported things to work seem to
be on 5.2-something.

Martin
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