(jdk15) Java plugin for firefox - how to enable?

[Ken Gunderson]

On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 18:42:49 -0700
Darren Spruell <phatbuckett at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm running FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE on amd64 and would like to get the Sun
> JDK browser plugin set up on my system. I use firefox from ports.
> 
> If I understand right, java/jdk15 will build a native JDK for FreeBSD
> on i386 and amd64. http://www.freebsd.org/java/dists/15.html suggests
> that the port will support Web Start and the browser plugin for
> Mozilla and Firefox.
> 
> I notice the Makefile for jdk15 checks to see if the architecture is
> amd64 and if so, sets WITHOUT_WEB=yes which the inline comments say
> will cause the browser plugin to not be built. I suspect this is the
> case also because after installing jdk15 I can still only find the

fyi- I cannot even get jdk15 to build under AMD using fbsd-i386
WITH_MOZILLA=firefox.

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Best regards,

Ken Gunderson

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