Subject: Re: Netscape7 and Java
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/04/2003 00:17:42
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:25:54PM -0400, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> So apparently the latest version of Netscape7 does not longer include
> the java plugin[1].  I found that the only way to make Netscape7 work
> with a java plugin is to do the following:
> 
>   * install sun-jre14-2.0 from pkgsrc-wip (or using the patches
>     from [2])
>   * install gcc-3.3;  do set PKG_GCC3_JAVA
>   * install netscape7-1
>   * ln -sf 
>     /usr/pkg/lib/netscape/netscape7/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so 
>     /usr/pkg/java/sun-1.4/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>   * export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/pkg/gcc-3.3/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> 
> For whatever reason, using any of the other JDKs did not work for me,
> only the one with the gcc-java-plugin.

Hmm.. I use the Linux java binaries (sun-jre14-1.0.3 pkg), and I added
the symlink to /usr/pkg/java/sun-1.4/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
in the same manner that you did.

This seems to work fine for me.

- Frank