From owner-freebsd-java Mon Nov 19 13:32:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ash25.adelaide.on.net (mail.internode.on.net [203.16.214.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9CA237B405 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:32:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from vee.net ([203.18.245.2]) by internode.on.net (PMDF V6.0-24 #37831) with ESMTP id <01KAX4F0XLR0003VYX@internode.on.net> for freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 07:59:07 +1030 Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 07:58:06 +1030 From: Mike Gratton Subject: Re: Plugin status To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Joe Kelsey Message-id: <3BF97966.60506@vee.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-au, en-gb, en-us User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6+) Gecko/20011117 References: <15353.18978.717379.778079@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <20011119113153.B7857@gnuppy> <15353.26748.393858.772996@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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: 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 "Every motive escalate." Blatant self-promotion: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message