Re: [gentoo-amd64] Java on AMD64

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On 9/20/07, Björn Bredohl <bjoern@bredohl.de> wrote:
<SNIP>
>
> Currently there is only a 64 bit java browserplugin in the blackdown
> package, and this is unstable! If you want java support in for example
> firefox, than you have to use the firefox-bin package (32bit).
>
> To see the available java plugins:
>
>         eselect java-nsplugin list
>
> and here is the thread, why the 64bit java plugin is not in the obove list:
>         http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-552110.html
>
> To use the unstable 64bit blackdown java plugin, you have to link the
> libjavaplugin_oji.so manually.
>
> - Björn
>

OK, I am busy working so I'll have to read the whole thread later,
maybe tonight. However both the forum thread and your response do
bring up some questions. Thanks!

I have both firefox and firefox-bin installed. Both tell me that the
JRE isn't installed. Using your eselect command it appears that I
don't have a plugin. Am I correct? I Assume I'd see a name under one
of those headings?

lightning ~ # eselect java-nsplugin list
Available 32-bit Java browser plugins
Available 64-bit Java browser plugins
lightning ~ # eselect java-nsplugin show
Current Java browser plugin
  (unset)
lightning ~ #

Indeed, it appears that nsplugin isn't enabled which would be my first
issue to solve. I know I had it turned off at one point when I was
using a chroot to get around this problem but that's far too difficult
to live with on a day-in/day-out basis.

Anyway, how do I get it built to be similar to Volker's sun-jdk-1.6
setup. I cannot seem to get the flag enabled:

lightning ~ # emerge -pvDuN sun-jdk

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U ] dev-lang/tk-8.4.15-r1 [8.4.15] USE="-debug -threads" 0 kB
[ebuild  NS   ] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.02  USE="X alsa -doc -examples
-jce (-nsplugin)" 0 kB

Total: 2 packages (1 upgrade, 1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 0 kB
lightning ~ #

lightning ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.use  | grep sun
dev-java/sun-jre-bin nsplugin
dev-java/sun-jdk nsplugin
lightning ~ #

Thanks,
Mark


Now,
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