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Greetings, I've installed /usr/ports/java/jdk15 then installed /usr/ports/www/firefox I'm not really sure why Firefox didn't detect that I have JDK15 installed. Also Later I'm going to install OpenOffice. In OO website http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/ seems they want to have JDK14. My question is the following:
1. If for some reason OpenOffice can't use JDK15 and it needs JDK14 can I still keep JDK15 installed or that would cause a conflict ?
The openoffice Makefile has this:
.if !defined(WITHOUT_JAVA) USE_JAVA= yes JAVA_VERSION= 1.4+ JAVA_BUILD= jdk .endif
FWIW:
I built OO WITHOUT_JAVA, and haven't missed it. Not sure what it was needed for. Admittedly I don't do a lot with OO... docs, spreadsheets, open the occasional M$ Office doc. Everything seems to work just fine without java.
You might want to change that to 1.5 and try again. I am just guessing though.
2. What am I missing with Firefox ? If JDK15 doesn't work with Firefox I wil install JKD14, although I thought it should work and be detected by the browser. Do I have to do any linking or specifying a path for the plugin ? If so please elaborate.
Thanks in advance.
Looks like the firefox Makefile hard-codes the path to the java plugin:
JPI_LIST?=\
${LOCALBASE}/jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/${ARCH}/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so \ ${LOCALBASE}/jdk1.4.1/jre/plugin/${ARCH}/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so \
${LOCALBASE}/diablo-jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/${ARCH}/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so \ ${LOCALBASE}/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/${ARCH}/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so
Perhaps you could add the jdk1.5 path to the very start of this list and try again? The work around would be to just create a softlink manually for 1.5. This is the 1.4.2 link:
/usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins$ ls -l libjavaplugin_oji.so
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 62 Jan 13 19:00 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
Not sure if this is still true but I believe jdk15 is still in beta or if not, then it has only just been released fully.
Chris
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