Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 12:02:04 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/mozilla Makefile pkg-plist Message-ID: <3C873A9C.ACD9763A@FreeBSD.org> References: <20020306233644.T27624-100000@blues.jpj.net>
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Trevor Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:04:07PM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > sobomax 2002/02/18 12:04:07 PST > > > > > > Modified files: > > > www/mozilla Makefile pkg-plist > > > Log: > > > Pre-create symlink to a Java plugin, so that the user only needs to install > > > jdk1.3.1 to make it working. Bump PORTREVISION. > > > > I am not sure this was a good thing. Ever since this change Mozilla has > > crashed more often for me, and often gives: > > > > LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i 386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so [Cannot open "/usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386 /ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so"] > > Segmentation fault > > For the linux-mozilla port, I wrote a little script which looks in > predefined places for plugins and makes symlinks to whichever ones exist. I don't like this approach, because it only works if the user had jdk installed when installing mozilla. Ideally, Mozilla should just ignore invalid plugins in its plugin directory or there should be a way to change Mozilla's behaviour at runtime using environment variable (e.g. `MOZILLA_PLUGINS=/foo/bar/plugin1.so:/foo/bar/plugin2.so'). -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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