From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 1 03:52:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D87016A4CF for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 03:52:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21BCA43D5C for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 03:52:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from [192.168.214.218] (c-24-1-210-118.client.comcast.net[24.1.210.118]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2005030103520601500l50nme>; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 03:52:07 +0000 Message-ID: <4223E70B.5090801@computer.org> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:52:43 -0600 From: Eric Schuele User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050127) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Hodgins References: <8be663db0502271554396202d8@mail.gmail.com> <422262E8.5000904@cis.strath.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <422262E8.5000904@cis.strath.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: BSD Mail cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JDK15 and JDK14 for Firefox and OpenOffice. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 03:52:08 -0000 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