Linux-flashplugin7 & rtld - RFC

Tarc tarc at tarc.po.cs.msu.su
Wed Jun 14 14:26:10 UTC 2006


On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:57:50PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> There's a reasonably well-known way to make Flash7 player work in FreeBSD, described here:
> 
> http://www.jail.se/freebsd.html
> 
> It involves patching the rtld with this patch:
> 
> http://www.jail.se/freebsd/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff
> 
> I'm not an expert, but this patch looks like free lunch - it doesn't look like it's going to 
> break anything (though not much software depends on it :) ) - can it be committed to current and 
> releng_6?
> 
See UPDATING file:
20060408:
  AFFECTS: users of www/linux-flashplugin*
  AUTHOR: hrs at FreeBSD.org

  These ports have been removed because the End User License Agreement
  explicitly forbids to run the Flash Player on FreeBSD.
  For more details, see
    http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/license/desktop/.


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   Best regards,
   	Arseny Nasokin


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