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Date:      Sun, 05 Feb 2006 20:35:31 -0600 (CST)
From:      Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net>
To:        Darren Spruell <phatbuckett@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: (jdk15) Java plugin for firefox - how to enable?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20060205203531.conrads@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <839aec700602051802s41825fc8p2f70236898852234@mail.gmail.com>

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On 06-Feb-2006 Darren Spruell wrote:
> On 2/5/06, Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 06-Feb-2006 Darren Spruell wrote:
>> > I'm running FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE on amd64 and would like to get the Sun
>> > JDK browser plugin set up on my system. I use firefox from ports.
>> [snip]
>> > Is it possible for amd64 users of jdk15 and firefox to have a
>> > compatible browser plugin?
>>
>> Not at this time, no.  I once tried commenting out the part of the
>> Makefile
>> that disabled building the plugin just to see what would happen, but the
>> compile failed.
> 
> I wonder then, is it possible to install a 32-bit firefox on
> freebsd/amd64 that could take a different java plugin?

About your only hope *may* be to install a 32-bit Linux version of both
firefox and java.

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"



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