Firefox and java

[Matthew Seaman]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 05:09:48PM -0600, John wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:00:51PM -0500, Benjamin Dover wrote:

> > ln -s /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/
> > Hope this helps.
> 
> BINGO!
> 
> Geez!  That's great - but how the HECK did you know this was the
> magic key?  This shouldn't be so ARCANE!!!

That's because the java plugin for Firefox/Mozilla/etc. is actually
part of the /Java/ port:

    gravitas:...ports/java/jdk14:% pkg_which /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so 
    jdk-1.4.2p7

I agree, it is a bit arcane, but you can work out what to type by
grovelling through the contents of /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work after
you've built the port -- or you can be clever and find the places this
has been discussed on various FreeBSD mailing lists before now.  This
is a good site:

    http://freebsd.rambler.ru/srch?words=firefox+java+plugin

    Cheers,

    Matthew

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