[17231] in Athena Bugs
Re: Acrobat plugin for Netscape broken on IRIX 6.3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Stone)
Fri Oct 1 19:52:40 1999
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 99 19:52:34 EDT
From: Larry Stone <lcs@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: <lcs@MIT.EDU>
To: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU, "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 7 Sep 1999 12:04:36 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <CMM.0.90.4.938821954.lcs@defiant.mit.edu>
Ok, it's been almost a month, and I never even got a response about this.
Why hasn't anything been done? Do I have the *only* 8.2 IRIX machine
out there? Even then, isn't it worth the small effort to apply the
fix now that I've gone to the trouble to diagnose it?
While you're at it, the link to acroread is broken as well. I'd like
to be able to invoke it from the acro locker as of old, instead of
mumble-foo /mit/acro_v3.0/arch/@sys/bin/acroread.
-- Larry
> 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
>
