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Re: Linux Athena 9.2 machines have Mozilla Java plugin problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed Apr 23 16:45:27 2003
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To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
cc: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:15:42 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:45:25 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> >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...
For mozilla in 9.2, we're using a different plugin directory, so it
should suffice to install the Blackdown JRE version into a separate area,
and change the mozilla plugin symlink to point there. We should test if
there are similar incompatibilities in other software in the locker,
though.
The Blackdown java software is available from:
http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/jdk1.4-status.html
Bob
