Re: java with mozilla-firebird & mozilla

[Soeren Sonnenburg <debianppc-ml@nn7.de>]

On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 01:14, Rob Latham wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:20:12AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> No debs, but check out the 'contrib/linuxppc' directory on any
> OpenOffice.org office mirror.

Wow! Indeed that works.

To make it work, add a blackdown mirror to your sources.list,
apt-get source j2re1.3
then fetch the j2sdk-1.3.1-02d-FCS-linux-ppc.bin and copy it in the
j2se1.3-powerpc-1.3.1.02b directory that apt-get source created. Then
enter that dir, add a line to the top of ./debian/changelog, like
j2se1.3-powerpc (1.3.1.02d-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * new upstream release (gcc 3.2 compiled)

 -- Soeren Sonnenburg <debianppc-ml@nn7.de>  Sun,  9 Nov 2003 16:00:21
-0700

and fakeroot ./debian/rules binary

install the wanted packages afterwards and now you have java 1.3 for
gcc3.x compiled mozilla and friends :-)

Thanks a lot for this tip Rob !

Soeren