Flash 7 plugin no longer working in Firefox

[Jack L.]

Please get and apply a dlsym(3) hook patch.
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff
This provides _dlsym(3) function to fix dynamic-link
error "can't find gtk_major_version" ad-hoc-ly.

from pkg-message

That fixed it for me.

On 11/10/05, Michael Nottebrock <lofi at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Has anyone else noticed that Flash 7 has stopped working in Firefox
> recently?
> I unfortunately cannot pinpoint the breakage to any particular date or
> change
> in a particular port.
>
> I'm running 5.4-STABLE using this libmap.conf:
>
> [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so]
> libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so.1
> libdl.so.2 pluginwrapper/flash7.so
> libz.so.1 libz.so.2
> libm.so.6 libm.so.3
> libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/flash7.so
>
> When a flash applet initializes, I get
>
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/pluginwrapper/flash7.so: Undefined
> symbol
> "_dlsym"
>
> and Firefox winks out.
>
> This is rather dire, since Flash7 is the only way for me to use
> flickr.com <http://flickr.com> ;-). Incidentally, the last time I used
> flickr.com <http://flickr.com>'s flash
> 'Organizer' applet provides me with a last-known-good date as well:
> October
> 28th.
>
> Any clues?
>
> Cheers,
> --
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