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[Michael Rasmussen <mir@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:54:39 +0100, Hasse Hagen Johansen wrote:

> Ser det rigtigt ud hvis du skriver about:plugins i location i firefox?
Fandt fejlen:

It needs to be symlinked.  This is the exact problem that comes 
 up when it isn"t.  The reason why it comes up like this has to 
 do with the plugin"s method of groping for the java_vm 
 executable.
 
 When the plugin file is dlopen"d by Galeon/Mozilla, it tries to 
 figure out the location where it originally resided 
 (/opt/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji140.so on my 
 system).  If it"s symlinked, it"s smart enough to figure that 
 out and trace down its original directory path (the path where 
 it first existed when j2re was installed).  Otherwise it assumes 
 that it"s actually sitting in its original path (which is 
 usually wrong, but there"s not much else it can do).
 
 Whatever it decides its original path is, it gropes for the 
 java_vm executable relative to that directory 
 path--"../../../bin/java_vm", to be exact.  That means if you 
 copy the plugin to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins instead of 
 symlinking it, it expects java_vm to be /usr/bin/java_vm.

Det var dog mere speget end som så. Jeg har symlink til java-plugin i
mozilla. Her havde jeg bare fået ændret fra et symlink til en kopi på
et eller andet tidspunkt:-( Er det ikke reelt en bug i mozilla(-firefox)??

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Michael Rasmussen
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