[gentoo-java] Re: Sun Java JDK 1.4* and Sun Java JRE 1.5 issue

[Peter <pete4abw@comcast.net>]

On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 22:13:24 +0200, Caster wrote:

snip...
> 
> Firefox doesn't care about any java environment variables. It only cares
> about the file /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/javaplugin.so . In gentoo,
> this file is just a symlink to some actual plugin file in the VM
> installed (for example
> /opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.06/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so). This
> symlink is created by emerging a JRE/JDK with "nsplugin" USE flag. The
> last VM installed with this USEflag takes this symlink. Currently
> there's no other way to change it except manual editing. Just recently
> on IRC I've suggested an eselect module for that, or to synchronize this
> with java-config (eselect java) VM changing. If you want to not depend
> on which VM was emerged last, emerge only the desired one with USE
> "nsplugin" (by editing package.use).
> 
> Caster

Ah, so it's sort of a last-in vm get's the link deal. Thanks for
explaining that. It's a lot simpler than I was making it!

-- 
Peter


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