ports/91900: ports/www/opera should advise on libmap.conf entries

[Arjan van Leeuwen]

Hey Helge,

Op 19-feb-2006, om 21:14 heeft Helge Oldach het volgende geschreven:

> Hi Arjan,
>
>> That indeed silences the warning at the start of Opera, but it  
>> doesn't
>> get plugins to work. To get working plugins, you'll need a native
>> FreeBSD 5/6 version of Opera (see www/opera-devel). I'll accept the
>> patch if you can point me to a plugin that you can get to work this
>> way.
>
> I not sure... As I said some weeks ago, I didn't test it. I played a
> bit today. Indeed I have told Opera to detect the Linux Flash6 plugin
> (using linuxpluginwrapper with an appropriate setup of  
> libmap.conf). See
> attached window dump. I don know whether this has been working before.
> However I still cannot view flash webpages, so the plugin does not  
> work
> properly. Maybe there are still some odd librares missing?
>
> I tried the Linux Flash5 and Flash7 plugins as well - but unlike the
> Flash6 plugin they weren't recognized at all. Same with the Acrobat
> plugin.

Thanks for your research. This is what I have come up with as well...  
It's caused by the differences in ABIs between FreeBSD 4 and 5/6  
libraries, it seems.

With the new FreeBSD 6 binaries of Opera 9, the Acrobat plugin works,  
but Flash is still a problem (they're actively working on solving  
this though).

>
> Anyhow, if you feel that silencing Opera isn't worthwhile, I'm  
> happy to
> wait until Opera9.

I feel that silencing the warning is not the correct way :). With the  
warning, we at least know that the plugins don't work. The  
libmap.conf entries hide this.

I hope Opera 9 will solve this problem completely, and will work with  
Opera to ensure this will be the case.

Thanks again and best regards,

Arjan