[17147] in Athena Bugs
Re: Acrobat plugin for Netscape broken on IRIX 6.3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Tue Sep 7 12:04:48 1999
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 12:04:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Larry Stone <lcs@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU
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On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Larry Stone wrote:
> > First off, the path /mit/acro/nsplugins/ doesn't symlink through the
> > "current" directory at all ... I just looked at the acro locker and the
> > real path is /mit/acro/arch/@sys/nsplugins/, which is as it should be.
>
> Yes, it does. I just wasn't clear enough -- you have to look down
> a couple levels of indirection:
>
> /mit/acro/nsplugins -> arch/@sys/nsplugins
> ...and then...
> /mit/acro/arch/sgi_63/nsplugins -> /mit/acro/current/distrib/@sys/Browsers/@sys
>
> The catch is, in /mit/acro/current/distrib/, there IS no sgi_63!
> Presumably because current == 4.0, and they didn't release Acrobat for that
> platform.
>
> So, the link should be changed to this, for _all_ non-Acrobat4 platforms:
> (note "Acrobat3" added in path, also)
> /mit/acro/arch/sgi_63/nsplugins ->
> /mit/acro/acro_v3.0/distrib/@sys/Acrobat3/Browsers/@sys/
Aha! Yes, I agree that's the problem. I'm cc'ing this to Alex Prengel, who
has the keys to the Acro locker ... ignore my comments about using the
global mailcap, that's a red herring.
-Todd
