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Date:      Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:37:53 -0500 (EST)
From:      Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
To:        Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG, (Joe Shevland) <J_Shevland@TurnAround.com.au>
Subject:   Re: Java Plug-In for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <XFMail.981111153753.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
In-Reply-To: <199811110033.RAA28512@sal.cs.utah.edu>

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No Joy on this method (yet).  The ControlPanel app (used to configure the
plug in) crashes with a sig 11 when used with the FreeBSD jre.  It's a java
app, so it doesn't use the linux stuff, AFAIK.

I'll be looking into this more as the days go on, but for right now, it's not
that easy.  

Patrick

On 11-Nov-98 Godmar Back wrote:
> 
>  The local FreeBSD experts here have told me that all you need
> to do is to grab the library from a Linux distribution and stick it
> wherever BSD keeps the emulation tree, I think in /compat.
> 
> You could try that and see whether that works.
> 
>       - Godmar
> 
>> 
>> No, but I would absolutely go berserk with joy if we could have
>> ongoing support for this. If I can help, let me know.
>> 
>> Patrick Gardella wrote:
>> > 
>> > Has anyone started working on a FreeBSD version of the Java Plug-In?
>> > 
>> > Linux has a version that requires higher library versions than what our
>> > Linux
>> > emulation has (our latest is linux_lib-2.6) even with the libc5 version. 
>> > (No, I
>> > haven't downloaded it yet; I'm doing so now :)
>> > 
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