Status of Flash 9 on stable

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:06:41 -0500
> From: eculp <eculp at encontacto.net>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> 
> Quoting Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net>:
> 
> >> From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl at ulyssis.org>
> >> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:28:58 +0200
> >>
> >> On Tuesday 14 October 2008 20:30:47 Kevin Oberman wrote:
> >> > I have seen some messages that imply that flashplugin9 might be usable
> >> > on STABLE. The port is sill marked IGNORE, though:
> >> > ** Port marked as IGNORE: www/linux-flashplugin9:
> >> > 	Unstable, no sound, generally unusable state
> >> >
> >> > I also thought that there might be a solution to the sound issue.
> >> >
> >> > Can anyone confirm the status? I would be happy to delete the IGNORE
> >> > line if I thought it would work and I know what changes might be needed
> >> > to get it to work. Even without sound, it would probably be useful. Too
> >> > many sites are using Flash 9 for the entry page and there is no way to
> >> > get to the site at all with Flash 7.
> 
>  From today's cvsup of Current, I still have the unmodified flash 9  
> port with the warning messages.  Has this actually been commited to  
> Current?

ATM the port has a simple IGNORE line that does not consider the version
under which it will be run. As Tijl mentioned,
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=127839 would remove the
IGNORE, but it has yet to be accepted by the port maintainer. If you are
running a system with the needed patches, just delete the IGNORE line in
the Makefile.

I do suggest that the patch make the IGNORE dependent on the
OSVERSION so it will continue to be IGNORE for versions where it won't
work (until supported versions all work). I belive patches for HEAD,
RELENG_7 and RELENG_6 have all been developed, so this may be moot if
the commits are actually made. 
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