Subject: Re: wip/jdk14 updated to patchset-8
To: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
From: Sverre Froyen <sverre@viewmark.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/21/2005 16:55:01
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 16:06, walt wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 14:41 +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've updated the wip/jdk14 package to Eyesbeyond's patchset 8...
>
> This is a bit strange.  I just finished building jdk14 on NetBSD-
> current.  The build went fine, but when I try to load java-enabled
> websites with the java plugin I get the dreaded 'X' symbol where
> the java applet should appear.
>
> On the other hand, I can run the java demo applets from my NetBSD
> hard drive with no problem.
>
> I seem to recall having this same problem in years past because of
> java security settings.  This makes me think about the 'other' src
> file that sun offered me when I downloaded the java sources:
> j2sdk-sec-1_4_2-src-scsl.zip
>
> This file is not required by the pkgsrc build, but perhaps it should
> be?  Dunno.
>
> Anyone else tried it yet?

It works fine for me (with konqueror out of the box and with deer park aka 
firefox after symlinking the plugin).   I used a patchset 7 version to 
bootstrap.

NetBSD-current i386

Sverre