Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:33:04 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Tarc <tarc@tarc.po.cs.msu.su> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux-flashplugin7 & rtld - RFC Message-ID: <44901E20.9080807@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20060614142715.GN22799@tarc.po.cs.msu.su> References: <449015DE.6090407@fer.hr> <20060614142715.GN22799@tarc.po.cs.msu.su>
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Tarc wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:57:50PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: >> There's a reasonably well-known way to make Flash7 player work in FreeBSD, described here: >> >> http://www.jail.se/freebsd.html >> >> It involves patching the rtld with this patch: >> >> http://www.jail.se/freebsd/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff >> >> I'm not an expert, but this patch looks like free lunch - it doesn't look like it's going to >> break anything (though not much software depends on it :) ) - can it be committed to current and >> releng_6? >> > See UPDATING file: > 20060408: > AFFECTS: users of www/linux-flashplugin* > AUTHOR: hrs@FreeBSD.org > > These ports have been removed because the End User License Agreement > explicitly forbids to run the Flash Player on FreeBSD. > For more details, see > http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/license/desktop/. > > Shortly thereafter, someone went and got a confirmation from macromedia that is was ok to use it. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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