[gentoo-dev] Re: Mozilla "patch" for flash/linux/GCC3.1

[gentoo-dev] Re: Mozilla "patch" for flash/linux/GCC3.1

[Ian Phillips]

After looking into it some more it seems that I have other problems with java. 
But the patch is good for Flash.

Yes, the patch should work for all browsers. All it does is provide a small 
wrapper around each of 4 functions that are deprecated/mangled differently by 
libstdc++ in GCC3.x, it should work with _any_ program that uses thesefunctions, 
not just browsers.

Which probably means that libmozhack.so is a stupid name for the patch. Maybe 
libgcc3hack or libcpphack ??

Ian.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Mozilla "patch" for flash/linux/GCC3.1

[Bart Verwilst]

So how should we take this problem on?

Edit the flash ebuild?
Anybody has got a working altered ebuild?

On Thursday 27 June 2002 18:32, Ian Phillips wrote:
|| After looking into it some more it seems that I have other problems with
|| java. But the patch is good for Flash.
||
|| Yes, the patch should work for all browsers. All it does is provide a
|| small wrapper around each of 4 functions that are deprecated/mangled
|| differently by libstdc++ in GCC3.x, it should work with _any_ program that
|| uses thesefunctions, not just browsers.
||
|| Which probably means that libmozhack.so is a stupid name for the patch.
|| Maybe libgcc3hack or libcpphack ??
||
|| Ian.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Mozilla "patch" for flash/linux/GCC3.1

[José Fonseca]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 06:03:23PM +0200, Bart Verwilst wrote:
>So how should we take this problem on?
>
[...]

I just would like to point out that, at least for flash, there is an
alternative to the Macromedia binary plugin - gplflash. I've already submited a bug
with the necessary changes for gcc-3.1 (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4134).
Althought the FLASH version supported by this plugin is not the most
recent one I haven't found any problems in my daily browsing.

For curiosity, there is a Kaffe plugin for Mozilla (check the bottom of
http://www.kaffe.org/ports.shtml) but unfortunately it seems to be unmaintained. I'm not sure how is Kaffe suited for this too. Nevertheless if Sun and/or BlackDown doesn't come up with an usable Java plugin this is surely something worth to check out. Especially attending the (mentioned elsewhere) plans of having Kaffe as the default Gentoo virtual machine in the future.

José Fonseca

[gentoo-dev] Re: Mozilla "patch" for flash/linux/GCC3.1

[Ian Phillips]

Hmmm, maybe the correct ebuild for this would be GCC3.1, then it's available to 
any other app that needs it.

This leaves us the problem of how to alter other apps to preload this patch. 
Could we make it a system wide environment setting? Would this break anything if 
all programs preloaded this lib?

That's a bad solution though. But the other option would be to patch every 
broken ebuild (admittedly, at present the only one I know of is Flash).

Here's my proposal then:

1. Patch GCC3.1 to build the shared library. This makes it available for any app
    that needs it. At the moment we only know about Flash, but it could in theory
    be anything that we install as a binary from a commercial vendor.
2. Patch Flash to check for a GCC3.1 based system. If found patch the mozilla
    start script to "export LD_PRELOAD=${LD_PRELOAD}:/usr/lib/libgcchack.so"
3. Patch any other app the same way if and when they are found.

Then we can remove individual patches from apps when the vendors make GCC3.1 
friendly releases.

Yours,
Ian.

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Mozilla "patch" for flash/linux/GCC3.1

[Ian Phillips]

> That's a bad solution though. But the other option would be to patch every 
> broken ebuild (admittedly, at present the only one I know of is Flash).

And Acrobat 5 apparently. Ho-hum....

Ian.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Mozilla "patch" for flash/linux/GCC3.1

[Prashanth Aditya Susarla]

I face no problem with Acrobat Reader 5, except that it's slow to start.

Prashanth

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On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Ian Phillips wrote:
> 
> And Acrobat 5 apparently. Ho-hum....
> 
> Ian.