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Re: Linux Athena 9.2 machines have Mozilla Java plugin problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Apr 23 16:15:45 2003
Message-Id: <200304232015.QAA03007@dit.mit.edu>
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:05:14 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:15:42 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>> I believe this error reflects changes in G++'s ABI (and in particular,
>> its name-mangling algorithm) between the version used to build the
>> Java plugin (probably 2.9x) and the version used to build Mozilla
>> (3.2.1, I think); if so, you'll need to find a version of the plugin
>> built against G++ 3.2 or newer.
>Yes, this is the case; I have installed and tested the java plugin from
>Blackdown, built with gcc 3.2, and it works OK.
So the question is what to do about it? We're currently running the
plugin out of the java_v1.4.1_01 locker- I suspect that if I were to
replace the version there now with the one you built, it would break
things for users on Athena 9.1 machines. I sure hope we don't need to
get into editing launch scripts with conditional tests for which
Athena or RedHat release is running, and using different binaries for
each...
Alex
