java with mozilla-firebird & mozilla

[Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca>]

Hey folks,

so, I'm trying to view a friend's java-based website with
mozilla-firebird, and realize the java plugin's not installed.  (yhis
is all on a blue&white g3 running sid).  From the help page, I
understand I need jre 1.4 compiled with gcc3.2.  But as far as I can
tell, no such jre exists for the powerpc, though some people seem to
have made unofficial .deb's for x86.

So I decide to try mozilla -- which means apt-getting it, since
firebird is so immensely great I got rid of mozilla.  However, mozilla
doesn't like the version of the plugin that comes in my
blackdown-distributed .deb of j2re1.3.  It gives me the following
error:

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/j2se/1.3/jre/plugin/ppc/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so [/usr/lib/j2se/1.3/jre/plugin/ppc/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol: __pure_virtual]

anyone seen this before, or know what it means, or (best) have a way
to fix it?  I really needto be able to use java for this website...

Thanks much,

matt