On 10/8/07, Willy Picard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I write this email to give my humble opinion on the scandalous status of the > linux-flashplugin9. This port is in the port tree for now 8 monthes (first > commit on the 17th of January 2007) and one should admit that it never > worked. A > numerous set of mails has already been sent on this mailing list about this > port > and, to my best knowledge, no one has figured out how to have Flash 9 > working on > a FreeBSD machine using this port. > > I am not shocked by the lack of support for Flash9, even if Flash 8+ is > nowadays > more and more frequent. I understand the lack of time of the porters, issues > related with various architectures and similar issues. Therefore, I give > Jamie no > grief about the lack of support for Flash 9. That is just not my point. > > The thing that shocked me is the fact that the port is still in the ports > tree > even if it does not work! (It compiles but each try to view a Flash > animation > leads to a segmentation fault of Firefox). If we want the FreeBSD community > to > be focused on quality (I assume we all want), then this port should be > removed > from the ports tree or at least marked as broken. > The port is not broken as the flash9 port is not compiled, it just installs the linux flash9 binary. What is broken is the linux emulation on FreeBSD < 7. Work is underway to improve the linux emulation in -CURRENT.
I agree the port should be marked broken for OSVERSION < 7000xx, and compat.linux.osrelease = 2.4.2, as the flash9 plugin may require 2.6.16 linux emulation. Scot Scot _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
