I finally put a bullet in my teeth and dist-upgraded a potato system to woody.
In potato I had been running communicator-smotif with the Blackdown Java
plugin. Here's what I have now, post-upgrade:
communicator-base 4.73-19 Communicator base support
communicator-nethelp-473 4.73-19 Communicator online help
communicator-smotif-473 4.73-19 Netscape Communicator 4.73
communicator-spellchk 4.73-19
netscape-base-4 4.75-2 Popular World-Wide-Web browser
netscape-base-473 4.73-19 4.73 base support for netscape
netscape-java-473 4.73-19 Netscape Java support for version
netscape-smotif-473 4.73-19 This installs a standard set of
java-common 0.4 Base of all Java packages
j2sdk1.3 1.3.0-2 Blackdown Java(TM) 2 SDK
SO, starting netscape now, I get the following:
--- begin nfg snip ---
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not load
/usr/lib/j2re1.3/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_oji.so: linking error=undefined
symbol: PR_GetCurrentThread
System error?:: Success
--- end-nfg-snip ---
How to resolve this? Somehow Woody has put the kibosh on Blackdown java.
Here's one more piece of data, ldd on the above-cited libjavaplugin_oji.so:
bash-2.04$ ldd /usr/lib/j2re1.3/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_oji.so
libgdk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0x4005c000)
libBrokenLocale.so.1 => /lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 (0x40090000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40092000)
libgmodule-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 (0x40199000)
libglib-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0x4019d000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x401bf000)
libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x401c2000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x401ca000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x401d8000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x402a3000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
I'm guessing that one of these is supposed to define "PR_GetCurrentThread" but
doesn't anymore since the upgrade?
TIA for any light shed on these murky precincts!
--
Bob Bernstein http://www.ruptured-duck.com
