Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:52:43 -0600 From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> To: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JDK15 and JDK14 for Firefox and OpenOffice. Message-ID: <4223E70B.5090801@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <422262E8.5000904@cis.strath.ac.uk> References: <8be663db0502271554396202d8@mail.gmail.com> <422262E8.5000904@cis.strath.ac.uk>
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Chris Hodgins wrote: > BSD Mail wrote: > >> Greetings, I've installed /usr/ports/java/jdk15 then installed >> /usr/ports/www/firefox >> I'm not really sure why Firefox didn't detect that I have JDK15 >> installed. Also Later I'm >> going to install OpenOffice. In OO website >> http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/ seems they >> want to have JDK14. My question is the following: >> >> 1. If for some reason OpenOffice can't use JDK15 and it needs JDK14 >> can I still keep JDK15 installed or that would cause a conflict ? > > > The openoffice Makefile has this: > > .if !defined(WITHOUT_JAVA) > USE_JAVA= yes > JAVA_VERSION= 1.4+ > JAVA_BUILD= jdk > .endif FWIW: I built OO WITHOUT_JAVA, and haven't missed it. Not sure what it was needed for. Admittedly I don't do a lot with OO... docs, spreadsheets, open the occasional M$ Office doc. Everything seems to work just fine without java. > > You might want to change that to 1.5 and try again. I am just guessing > though. > >> >> 2. What am I missing with Firefox ? If JDK15 doesn't work with Firefox >> I wil install JKD14, although I thought it should work and be detected >> by the browser. Do I have to do any linking or specifying a path for >> the plugin ? If so please elaborate. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> > > > Looks like the firefox Makefile hard-codes the path to the java plugin: > > JPI_LIST?=\ > > ${LOCALBASE}/jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/${ARCH}/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so \ > ${LOCALBASE}/jdk1.4.1/jre/plugin/${ARCH}/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so \ > ${LOCALBASE}/diablo-jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/${ARCH}/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so > \ ${LOCALBASE}/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/${ARCH}/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so > > Perhaps you could add the jdk1.5 path to the very start of this list and > try again? The work around would be to just create a softlink manually > for 1.5. This is the 1.4.2 link: > > /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins$ ls -l libjavaplugin_oji.so > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 62 Jan 13 19:00 > libjavaplugin_oji.so -> > /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so > > Not sure if this is still true but I believe jdk15 is still in beta or > if not, then it has only just been released fully. > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Regards, Eric
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