Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 07:58:06 +1030 From: Mike Gratton <mike@vee.net> To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us> Subject: Re: Plugin status Message-ID: <3BF97966.60506@vee.net> References: <15353.18978.717379.778079@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <20011119113153.B7857@gnuppy> <15353.26748.393858.772996@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us>
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Joe Kelsey wrote: > Bill Huey writes: > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:06:26AM -0800, Joe Kelsey wrote: > > > We can solve the nspr4/mozilla problem by including a copy of the i386 > > > nspr4 library in > > > j2sdk1.3.1/plugin/.oji-plugin/src/motif/lib/solaris/i386/libnspr4.so as > > > part of the port. It's up to Greg. > > What is that library ? a pthreads abstraction layer ? > > nspr=NetScape mumble, mumble...essentially the netscape standard calling > sequences... > Close. 8) It's the NetScape Portable Runtime - it is effectively an OS abstraction layer; it provides thrading, file and network IO, memory management, etc. More detail here: <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/index.html>; I don't see why it would need to be distributed with the JDK, however. I can't see it being a build-depends and given it is a run-depends for Mozilla, there's already a copy on the system that you're trying to use it on. Mike. -- Mike Gratton <mike@vee.net> "Every motive escalate." Blatant self-promotion: <http://web.vee.net/>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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