[18867] in Athena Bugs
NPX_PLUGIN_PATH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Wed Mar 7 17:50:17 2001
Message-Id: <200103072250.RAA31733@n42-202-1.mit.edu>
To: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 17:50:11 -0500
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
The recent change to make the netscape launch script include
~/.netscape/plugins in $NPX_PLUGIN_PATH seems to have several
side-effects:
- on solaris, the java plugin is not loaded
- if the user has set $NPX_PLUGIN_PATH, it is ignored
- on linux and irix, ~/.netscape/plugins is not added to the path
(unless the user happens to have set $NPX_PLUGIN_PATH)
I'm appending a couple of examples from copying the script local and
looking at the path, but the culprit seems to be the following line:
NPX_PLUGIN_PATH=${NPX_PLUGIN_PATH:+$HOME/.netscape/plugins}:/mit/acro/\
nsplugins:${NS_HOME}/plugins:${archtop}te/PlugIn
If I'm parsing things correctly, the first bit substitutes
~/.netscape/plugins for $NPX_PLUGIN_PATH if it's already set, otherwise
uses neither. (It looks like the old version used :- so that
~/.netscape/plugins would be substituted if $NPX_PLUGIN_PATH was *not*
already set, which seems like better logic, but maybe the thing to do is
something with [ -z $NPX_PLUGIN_PATH ] instead.)
The java plugin path gets set earlier in the script:
SunOS)
NPX_PLUGIN_PATH=/afs/athena.mit.edu/software/java_v1.3.0/distrib/\
sun4x_57/jre/plugin/sparc${NPX_PLUGIN_PATH+:}$NPX_PLUGIN_PATH
which explains why the script is eating it now (and why the old version
would have ignored ~/.netscape/plugins on solaris).
--Abby
Linux, no customizations:
:/mit/acro/nsplugins:/var/athena/infoagents/arch/i386_linux22/MIT-only/\
netscape/plugins:/var/athena/infoagents/arch/i386_linux22/te/PlugIn
Linux, after "setenv NPX_PLUGIN_PATH foo"
/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/e/c/eclass1/.netscape/plugins:/mit/acro/\
nsplugins:/mit/infoagents/arch/i386_linux22/MIT-only/netscape/plugins\
:/mit/infoagents/arch/i386_linux22/te/PlugIn
Solaris, no customizations:
/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/e/c/eclass1/.netscape/plugins:/mit/acro/\
nsplugins:/mit/infoagents/arch/sun4x_57/MIT-only/netscape/plugins:/mit\
/infoagents/arch/sun4x_57/te/PlugIn
Solaris, after "setenv NPX_PLUGIN_PATH foo"
/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/e/c/eclass1/.netscape/plugins:/mit/acro/\
nsplugins:/mit/infoagents/arch/sun4x_57/MIT-only/netscape/plugins:/mit\
/infoagents/arch/sun4x_57/te/PlugIn
