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Date:      Thu, 17 May 2001 23:51:21 +0900
From:      Michael Westbay <westbay@seaple.icc.ne.jp>
To:        <freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Java Plugin
Message-ID:  <01051723512101.10356@michael.westbay.fa.jp>
In-Reply-To: <000401c0ded5$40fbd4a0$0100a8c0@volker>
References:  <000401c0ded5$40fbd4a0$0100a8c0@volker>

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Sturm-san wrote:

> I am trying to get the Java Plugin for Netscape 4.76 of Sun's JDK
> 1.3.0_02 running. It says "Bad magic number ... Ignored" when I do a
> "about:plugins" in Netscape.

Are you using the Linux-Communicator?  Or the FreeBSD native one?

I got it to work with the Linux-Communicator (in FreeBSD 4.2-current, haven't 
yet tried after upgrading to 4.3).  I never got it to work with the native 
Netscape 4.76, Linux-Netscape6, or Mozilla 0.8x (native nor Linuxulator).

> I tried
> brandelf -t Linux javaplugin.so
> already.

I've learned a lot about paths and the Linuxulator in experimenting with this 
and StarOffice5.2.  You want to make sure that anything that runs under the 
Linuxulator is NOT under /usr/local.  Sure, the linux-jdk1.3.0 will run under 
/usr/local, but I've found that many things that want to access it will not 
find it there.  You're better off mv-ing it to /compat/linux/usr/local (or 
ANYWHERE under /compat/iinux.  That includes linux-communicator.

I often put a ln under /usr/local for typing purposes, but the "acutal" 
location is best under /compat/linux.  Note that links from /compat/linux/usr 
to /usr become circular under the Linuxulator, so you may as well not even 
bother.

Oh, and if /home is under /usr, you may have even more trouble.  I now always 
make sure that /home lives on a slice of its own.

I don't know how much of this is useful, but perhaps something will ring a 
bell.  Hope it helps.

-- 
Michael Westbay
Work: Beacon-IT http://www.beacon-it.co.jp/
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