Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:33:46 +0300 From: Adi Pircalabu <apircalabu@bitdefender.com> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Linux-flashplugin7 & rtld - RFC Message-ID: <20060614193346.3addcbad@apircalabu.dsd.ro> In-Reply-To: <449015DE.6090407@fer.hr> References: <449015DE.6090407@fer.hr>
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:57:50 +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 I think there's a more reasonable way to use linux-flashplugin7, by using it with linux-[your-browser-here] from ports. IMO THE way surely is a FreeBSD native version of that plugin from Macromedia. > 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? I can crash or hang native Firefox / Mozilla / Seamonkey & linux-flashplugin7 in less than 3 minutes. I think the commiters are smart enough to NOT give everyone the possibility of doing the same. Unless, of course, you will volunteer to manage the enormous quantity or up-coming bug-reports :) -- Adi Pircalabu (PGP Key ID 0x04329F5E) -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. For more information please visit http://www.bitdefender.com/
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