Re: searching Java & flash for mozilla
Hi,
I am no Galeon user but Laurent just reported the following:
> just double-checked. The plugin is built with fPIC option and it's a
> shared lib all right. There is no ect symbol per se in the plugin code.
> Mozilla loads applets correctly with the plugin and they run well. And
> Galeon 1.0.2 shows the same error on my machine. Weird.
So the "ect" missing symbol is not part of the jdk plugin? Could one of
the Galeon libraries be missing a -fPIC in its build?
Ideas here?
Kevin
On January 26, 2002 11:50, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Sam, 2002-01-26 at 02:16, Brian Victor wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 05:02:59PM -0800, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
wrote:
> > >At 4:45 PM -0500 1/25/02, Adam Goode wrote:
> > >>Java can be found (in various forms) as part of Debian, and as part
> > >> of the Blackdown project
> > >> (http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html). The Blackdown version
> > >> contains Sun's Java plugin which should work on Mozilla.
> > >
> > >Sadly, the PPC java plugin (which can be found at
> > >http://penguinppc.org/projects/java) broke a couple Mozilla revs
> > >(around 9.5 or so) back, and no one to my knowledge has managed to
> > >release an updated version.
> > >
> > >If I am incorrect about this, please let me know, I sorely miss Java
> > >when surfing with Mozilla.
> >
> > Actually, blackdown released 1.3.1-02a-FCS three days ago. I
> > installed it as soon as I found out and java has been working about as
> > well as I can expect in Mozilla 0.9.7. (i.e., most applets work
> > pretty well, a few like to munch processor time eternally.) See the
> > address Adam gave for details.
>
> Thanks, but sadly, it gives this error with galeon:
>
> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
> /usr/local/j2sdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/ppc/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so
> [/usr/local/j2sdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/ppc/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so:
> R_PPC_REL24 relocation at 0x0d63d1c4 for symbol `ect' out of range]
>
> It seems the plugin contains non-PIC code. Kevin, do you still build the
> PPC binaries, or where should I report this?
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