Re: Off-topic: Java Reflection/Generics/Collections question
What you try to do is not a valid operation in type-safe language as Java. You can't convert Coll to Coll, but you can cast Coll to Coll. Don't know if this is OK with the problem you're trying to solve Merry Christmas! On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Frank Staals wrote: > Not realy a FreeBSD-specific question but I was not sure where I could find > what I was looking for elseware (Googling did not manage to dig up much > info): > > The problem: > > I want to set the type of objects some Collection object holds on runtime. > In other wors I have an object C with: C extends AbstractCollection, I have > the Class object T specifying what type of objects C should hold and I have > a method M which takes a C as an argument. I made a generic version of C > (without the type) and now I have to set it so it can only carry objects of > type T. Does anyone know how to do this ? > > Information in programming style: > > C extends AbstractCollection myCollection; > Class itemType; > > > public void myMethod(C myCollectionArgument) > > How do I convert myCollection from being a C to a C on runtime > so I can call myMethod(myCollection) ? > > I hope the explanation of my problem makes sense and someone can help me. > > Regards, > > > -- > > - Frank > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Problems with www.freebsd.org
Hi, The problem is not in the FreeBSD site. "The problem is in yout TV set", I suppose. I've experienced the same problem when I was using PPPoE and haven't configured the MTU correctly. If you're using PPPoE, to learn more check this out: http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:eOfdxb4tmkoJ:renaud.waldura.com/doc/freebsd/pppoe/+Renaud+Waldura+%2B+PPPoE&hl=en&client=firefox-a and search the mailing list previous thread, such as: "*PPPoE Link Problems* ". Best regards, Vladimir On 01/10/2007, Fernando Apesteguía <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm having some problems with the FreeBSD site. Basically, when I type > www.freebsd.org in the address bar in Firefox I can't access the web. > I get always a timeout. > > The funny thing is that I can do ping and if I use the IP address I > can access the main page, but then most of the links are not working > for me. > > > I wrote an email to the contact address that is showed in the page, > but I haven't gotten any answer so far. This is the reason because I'm > asking help here. I already deleted all the cookies and data of my > browser and tried again but it didn't work. > > Any clues? > > Thanks in advance > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: About FreeBSD installation
It depends on what you really want. If you don't want 64-bit version OS, I don't think you'll have problems at all. Recently, my PC got fucked up, I've changed the mother board, switched from 32 bit AMD Athlon to a 64 bit AMD Turion, and successfully booted from the previously installed FreeBSD 4.9Release on the hard drive. If you want the 64 bit version of the OS, further investigation from you are needed. Check this out: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64.html Best Regards, Vladimir On 04/07/07, Yordan Yordanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello I want to install the last stable release of FreeBSD Unix on my desktop machine with AMD64 processor. Are there any differences in the FreeBSD ports for these two platform: FreeBSD/i386 and amd64? In the FreeBSD handbook I saw a workaround which should be applied to set up FreeBSD for some chipsets. If I have such a problem can I try to install i386 version on my machine. There is no reason not to work, but I want to be sure that this is possible. Greetings from Bulgaria Yordan - С бензин в кръвта! http://auto-motor-und-sport.bg/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to " [EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Java on the BSD Desktop?
On 30/05/07, Vladimir Tsvetkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When we talk about portability of User Interface applications with rich interactivity we must also put into disscusion Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex applications. Adobe is working on its Apollo platform (huge part of it is open source - http://www.podtech.net/home/2827/the-architecture-of-flash), which should bring RIA into the desktop as a front end technology and leave to us the choice among the diverse flavours of back end technologies. To my oppinion Java is more suitable for back end solutions. The level of interractivity of Java GUI apps is around the standard for the most wide spread applications, but it is still way to far from being competitive to the richness in human-computer interaction, that we can design and use with Flash/Flex apps. I would like to see a native FreeBSD Flash player. This is the main reason I'm getting into this disscussion. There is a Flash player for the Macs and for the Linuxes, we need also a native Flash player. Best Regards, Vladimir Tsvetkov, http://www.gugga.com/ On 30/05/07, n j < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I guess if everyone here on this list gives his/her two cents to this > > topic we're having a nice java advocacy flame war. ;-) > > The main characteristic of a flame war is to disparage other people's > arguments while maintaining that your arguments are the best, no? > That's why I'm not going to try and talk anyone out of their poison > :-), be it C, Python, Perl or C#/Mono. > > Rather, I would like to continue a constructive discussion by speaking > from a personal experience. I apologize in advance if this is OT even > though it is FreeBSD-related and this list does see a lot of > shell/perl/... questions, so I don't see why a Java question should be > illegitimate. > > First off, in my company we had a Java app (simple app, working with > database and e-mails) written for Windows. And then, there came > company decision to make Linux the default desktop solution. Java app > worked like a charm with no changes whatsoever. > > Second, I'm running a custom-written Java server app on a FreeBSD > server for over half a year in production plus many months before that > in development. It works rock solid on Diablo JDK. Of course, we also > have a GUI desktop app that connects to this server that works on both > Windows and Ubuntu. > > I completely agree that Sun's licence is a hassle. Fortunately, in a > year or two, we're going to have an open source Java platform meaning > there will be no hassle with manual download while installing JRE/JDK. > Combined with the great API, object-oriented nature of the language, > free IDE for serious development (Eclipse and specifically Netbeans > with a very capable Swing GUI visual editor) - this combination > strikes me as something only Microsoft can compete with. > > Another .02, > -- > Nino > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Why are so many people using 4.x?
2006/3/29, Vaaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > FreeBSD, and UNIX for that matter, is based off 30-year-old concepts. > Noboy can deny this. That being said, you can compare the development > of FreeBSD to building a skyscraper on shallow grounds. Naturally, the more > you build the more building is likely to collapse. This is now the case with > the old FreeBSD (in which a couple of smart guys decided to savior into > DragonFly) versus the new FreeBSD. I think the same thing is happening > with Windows versus Vista. As OS development progresses, this little > theory of mine will become more and more obvious. If anyone on this list can > contribute with facts and observations to strenghten this theory, I would > really appreciate it. 30 years of development and continual introduction of new features build on top of existing ones is considered a very good design. And FreeBSD is still extensible and growing, despite of its age. And FreeBSD is not a skyscraper neigther literally, nor metaphorically - it's more like a spaceship - a very robust one - gives you the means and tools to save your life in deep space when a threat to your life appears and there is noone around. Before even starting talking about design, we should give proper definition for this concept. What is good design? How do we measure one design against an alternative one? The widespread notion of good desing is related to the ability to maintain, extent and comprehend easily some complex system. 30 years... You do the math! I'm not sure you're ready to present a new and revolutionary design (you should start a new threat on that). It's more like you're in search of volunteers to your FreeBSD Critisism Project. Revolutionary design means starting from scratch - this would be a huge, tremendous investment of time and efforts(choose a platform, a language, write a compiler for it, start building a kernel, write completely new device drivers - Microsoft have its Singularity Research Project - an operating system written entirely in C#, but they don't share the tools - the C# compiler and linker they use to build that system, neighter the code - you can get just a couple of PowerPoint presentions, an interview, and a short 50 page long paper, about the features that this system will introduce - on the other hand you can get all of the FreeBSD source code, tones and tones of documentation, and hundreds of ready to help you people - FOR FREE). And there's no guarantee that this new design would last even 5 years. At some point in time this will probably happen, but it won't be FreeBSD. FreeBSD is not a vendor - it's an existing and evolving operating system and a commited community of FreeBSD users. The emphasis is on evolving. If we want to stick to FreeBSD, the new design should be evolutionary one, which is pretty different in concept - we would start from a familiar code base and would slowly integrate changes (just like the DragonFly project) into this base, thus creating a new BSD branch of development. Best Regards, Vladimir Tsvetkov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Which is the best open source C/C++ IDE out there?
> This is obviously a trick question, because real > programmers don't use IDEs. Case Closed. I'm not a real programmer, but UNIX is a great developer environment. It's a tool based environment. Small tools, strong cohesion in what they are designed for, easy ways to combine them to form more complex tasks. Good documentation too. Actually you don't need anything else, you don't need a colourfull IDE. But... Maybe only few, really exceptional people can benefit and grok the power of this kind of environments. To me the ideal "IDE" is actually a toolkit: - Source Editor, preferably with a object browser or other kind of a source browser. An autocomplete functionallity could increase productivity too - this could increase quality if we measure quality of code by the low number of syntax mistakes, but this could also be a threat to quality letting the programmer write without reading carefully what is written - code bloating. - Compiler with a debugger. We must discuss about the pros. and cons. of a grafic debugger versus a text-mode debugger. The things are getting really messy when it comes up to debugging multithreading code and I really don't know what is the ultimate tool for this task. - A build tool. Ant or make will suffice. - Source control tools. CVS, SVN etc. - Documentation tools. POD, Doxygen, Javadoc or something else. - Unit testing framework. This is not always a tool. This could be a language extension, or a testing API. - Other tools. You don't need to put everything together in a single swissknife-tool, but this could be convenient in some cases. IDE vs. Toolbased Environments ??? Which is more productive and how to measure productiveness? Best Regards, Vladimir Tsvetkov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Swap space
> Hi, > > I just bought 4 servers with 4 gigs of ram, the documentation > proposes to use 2 to 3 times the amount of ram for swap... I don't > think 12 gigs of swap would be useful lol, but do I really need to > put 4 gigs of ram. (It might be useful for kernel dump but...) > > What do you guys do with swap space in this scenario ? It depends on how big is the address space for your machines. 32-bit machines can address 4GB of memory, so it's reasonable to use 2 or 3 times the amount of RAM space (if you hawe 256MB or 512MB - the swap should be 768MB or 1GB), but if you have 32bit machines with 4GB of memory there is no need to use more than 4GB for swap. 64-bit machines can address 2^64 bytes which is a very big address space, so you should use the guidelines in the documentation (FreeBSD Handbook). Best regards, Vladimir ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Apache::DBI Problems
> I'm having some major issues with perl site I'm trying to get working. > I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 stable using Apache 2.0.55 and perl 5.8.7. The > error I'm getting is: > Can't locate object method "connect_on_init" via package "Apache::DBI" > (perhaps you forgot to load "Apache::DBI"?) > > I do have > LoadModule perl_module libexec/apache2/mod_perl.so > PerlModule Apache::DBI > in my httpd.conf file. I'm pretty new to perl and have no idea what > I've done wrong. Any help would greatly be appreciated. If you need > more info from me, don't hesitate to ask. Maybe you should inspect the Perl script you're trying to run, and you should look for the following Perl statement: use Apache::DBI; I think it's also good to read the documentation for the Apache::DBI module in CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/~pgollucci/Apache-DBI-0.9901/DBI.pm You could also try to add PerlModule Apache::DBI # this comes before all other modules using DBI to start.pl. You should pay attention to the comment!!! THIS MODULE SHOULD BE LOADED BEFORE ALL OTHER MODULES USING DBI. What can you do next if you had configured everything correctly and the Perl scripts are OK? Maybe you just dont't have the Apache::DBI module installed on your machine, and you should download it and install it then: % perl -MCPAN -e "shell" install Apache::DBI Best Regards, CASIUS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problems with Acroread7 port
06 Oct 2005 08:58:34 -0400, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Vladimir Tsvetkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Now acroread7 runs, but during start it prints in an error-message > > dialog the following message: > > > > There was an error while loading the plug-in 'PPKLite.api.' > > The plug-in failed to initialize. > > > > Oddly, this message is shown only when I start Acroread7 under root. > > Another problem is the behaviour of Firefox + Acroread Plug-in. When I > > try to access ot to load from the disk *.PDF documents, Firefox > > freezes when the initialization window of Acroread7 stops on: > > > > Loading EWH.api... > > > > Than the firefox window is not responding. > > What causes this problem? > > It's probably an environment setting; my guess would be PATH. > > But my advice would be not to run X as root anyway. In order to start an X application as root, you do not need to run X as root. I simply use su, and start the application from the command line as root. When I use Acroread7 as a standalone application (not as a plug-in to Firefox), it works just file, despite the error message dialog above informing about the problems with the incorrect loading of those APIs. I could be a PATH problem, but it also could be a lack of a required library. First, I should assure that all the reguired ports for Acroread7 are installed correctly and up-to-date. Solving the problems with those stale dependencies looks more like a intuitive work, and I'm still on the stage "Try and Error". Maybe gaining the experience will formalize that process, but it would be of great help to me, if you could supply some heuristics for solving this kind of problems. Unfortunatelly, I couldn't find much on this topic. Vladimir ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Fwd: Port perl 5.8.7 on FreeBSD 4.10
-- Forwarded message -- From: Vladimir Tsvetkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2005-10-6 13:57 Subject: Re: Port perl 5.8.7 on FreeBSD 4.10 To: Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005/10/6, Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > fw2: env | grep LIBRA > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib/compat:/usr/local/firebird/lib:/usr/local/lib/mysql:/usr/local/lib/pth:/usr/local/lib/kde3 > > OK part of it may be useless :) > Backup the value of LD_LIBRARY_PATH (just copy the string in a text editor or somewhere else, so after this experiment you could set this environment variable again) and now unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable. Does this fix the problem? Vladimir ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Port perl 5.8.7 on FreeBSD 4.10
-- Forwarded message -- From: Vladimir Tsvetkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2005-10-6 14:05 Subject: Re: Port perl 5.8.7 on FreeBSD 4.10 To: Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Does this fix the problem? > > It does, now I have to figure out what is the problem in the library. > > Both machines have the same LD_LIBRARY_PATH... > > Thanks, I should be able to work it out now. This happens to be a common problem. You might want to look at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1630529+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-questions/20031214.freebsd-questions There is an explanation for this problem and recommendations what is the correct way to configure ld(1). Best Regards, Vladimir ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Port perl 5.8.7 on FreeBSD 4.10
-- Forwarded message -- From: Vladimir Tsvetkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2005-10-6 13:46 Subject: Re: Port perl 5.8.7 on FreeBSD 4.10 To: Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005/10/6, Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > What kind of script are you trying to execute? > > No script, perl it self is not running. > > > What options did you use for building that port? > > Are you using THREADS and ITHREADS ? > > All default, make, make install > > > Could you apply in your nex mail the output of this command: > > > > # perl -V > > > > or even this leads to the same error-message? > > Same error message. Let me see the output of: # echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH Vladimir ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problems with Acroread7 port
Now acroread7 runs, but during start it prints in an error-message dialog the following message: There was an error while loading the plug-in 'PPKLite.api.' The plug-in failed to initialize. Oddly, this message is shown only when I start Acroread7 under root. Another problem is the behaviour of Firefox + Acroread Plug-in. When I try to access ot to load from the disk *.PDF documents, Firefox freezes when the initialization window of Acroread7 stops on: Loading EWH.api... Than the firefox window is not responding. What causes this problem? Best Regards, Vladimir ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problems with Acroread7 port
> > > I meant that you need the X version of libfreetype. > > > > I've just installed /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8 port, but happen > > also to break my acroread5 port, and neither acroread5 nor acroread6 > > works. > > I haven't had acroread6 installed in a long time, but acroread5 still > works for me (in a very carefully controlled environment, because its > security bugs are both serious and unlikely to be fixed). I meant 7 (SEVEN) :). I reinstalled acroread with # portinstall acroread and this fixed the problem with the Acroread5. > > # acroread > > /compat/linux/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: > > error while loading shared libraries: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared > > object file: No such file or directory > > > > I looked for libXext.so.6: > > # find /usr -name "libXext.so.*" > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 > > > > It appears to be right in place, but still acroread doesn't work. > > That's *not* the right place. The right place would be > /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6. > The one you found will only help you with FreeBSD binaries, not Linux ones. > Now, I understand. The problem with the Linux version of FreeType is solved. This time I am getting a different message about another missing library. But I hope I'm going to fix this too. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problems with Acroread7 port
> You need the Linux version (as acroread is a Linux X executable). > On my -STABLE system, it was installed as part of linux_base-8, > as a dependency. I believe I have exactly the linux version: /usr/ports/print/acroread7 And it was installed as part of the linuxpluginwrapper port as a dependency. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Problems with Acroread7 port
I had no problems with the make install clean with this port, but when I try to start acroread7, I got the following message: # acroread7 /compat/linux/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libfreetype.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I've searched for the libfreetype.so.6 shared object on my machine and I got the following: # find /usr -name "libfreetype.so.*" /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.9 Maybe I have a newer version of libfreetype.so.*. I tried with a symbolic link: # ln -s /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.9 /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6 And then again: # acroread7 /compat/linux/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libfreetype.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory So, this method doesn't work. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! Best Regards, Vladimir Tsvetkov p.s. This message was also sended to the port maintainer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Fwd: FreeBSD + Firefox + Flash Problems
-- Forwarded message --
From: Vladimir Tsvetkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2005-10-3 11:02
Subject: Re: FreeBSD + Firefox + Flash Problems
To: RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Flash problem is solved!!!
The problem was in step 2:
> 2. Install linuxpluginwrapper:
> # cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper
> # make WITHOUT_PLUGINS=yes install clean
I just explored the /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper/Makefile and I saw this:
.if !defined(WITHOUT_PLUGINS)
RUN_DEPENDS=${X11BASE}/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so:${PORTSDIR}/
www/linux-flashplugin6
RUN_DEPENDS+= ${X11BASE}/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so:${PORTSDIR}/mult
imedia/linux-realplayer
#RUN_DEPENDS+= ${LINUXBASE}/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf
.so:${PORTSDIR}/print/acroread7
.if ${OSVERSION} < 50
USE_MOTIF= yes
.endif
.endif
I had defined WITHOUT_PLUGINS=yes, which meant that the nested .if
expession about using Motif on my system was not executed. My system
needs Motif to get the Flash plugin running. So I deinstalled it, and
installed it without defining this configuration variable:
# cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper
# make install clean
Now, Flash works!!!
You can see also that I've commented out the line that will install
Acroread7 as a dependency, because I thought that Acroread5 will work
just fine for me. Obviously I am mistaken, because I still can't open
*.PDF in an embeded browser. And now, I'm just going to try another
install and maybe will use Acroread7.
Best Regards,
Vladimir
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FreeBSD + Firefox + Flash Problems
I did everything like it was described in the how-to's about installing plugins for native Firefox on FreeBSD. I use FreeBSD 4.9 Release, which at this moment is unsupported. 1. Install firefox: # cd /usr/ports/www/firefox ; make install clean 2. Install linuxpluginwrapper: # cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper # make WITHOUT_PLUGINS=yes install clean I use WITHOUT_PLUGINS=yes, because I don't need acroread7 - I have acroread5 and it perfectly fits my needs. I got the following message: Please enable libmap.conf(5) feature for rtld(1). 4-stable user: You can get a following patch. http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/libmap_4stable.diff Please apply on /usr/src and make install on /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf: # cd /usr/src ; patch -p0 < /tmp/libmap_4stable.diff # cd libexec/rtld-elf ; make clean all install 5.1-RELEASE user: Please see /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/Makefile. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper. 3. Patching: I've downloaded the patch: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/libmap_4stable.diff and than I tried to apply it: # cd /usr/src ; patch -p0 < /tmp/libmap_4stable.diff I got the following message: Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me... The text leading up to this was: -- |diff -urN libexec/rtld-elf.old/Makefile libexec/rtld-elf/Makefile |--- libexec/rtld-elf.old/Makefile Sun Jun 23 06:32:35 2002 |+++ libexec/rtld-elf/Makefile Wed Oct 8 02:50:10 2003 -- File to patch: Obviously, I don't have /usr/src/libexec sources installed. 4. Install the libexec sources: I put the FreeBSD 4.9 Release installation CD in the CD-ROM. # /stand/sysinstall Configure->Distributions->src->libexec 5. Patch again: # cd /usr/src ; patch -p0 < /tmp/libmap_4stable.diff # cd libexec/rtld-elf ; make clean all install This now works. 6. Another try to install linuxpluginwrapper: # cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper # make WITHOUT_PLUGINS=yes install clean No problems at all. 7. Install linux-flashplugin6: # cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin6 # make install clean No problems at all. 8. Editing /etc/libmap.conf: # /etc/libmap.conf for FreeBSD 4.x # Flash6 with Mozilla Firefox [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so] libpthread.so.0 pluginwrapper/flash6.so libdl.so.2 pluginwrapper/flash6.so libz.so.1 libz.so.2 libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3libstdc++.so.3 libm.so.6 libm.so.2 libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/flash6.so # Acrobat5 with Mozilla Firefox [/usr/X11R6/Acrobat5/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so] libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/acrobat.so # Helix RealPlayer with Mozilla Firefox [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so] libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3libstdc++.so.3 libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/realplayer.so I've checked every single Shared Object that is listed in my /etc/libmap.conf. But there are no indications at all, that Firefox is using the installed plugins. Still Firefox continues to inform me about missing plugins. I tried also, to configure Konqueror (3.1.4) to use the new plugins: Settings->Configure Konqueror..->Plugins->Scan for new plugins And I got the following error message: "The nspluginscan executable cannot be found. Netscape plugins will not be scanned." I searched the web for this problem and I found this on the freebsd-questions maillist: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-July/053298.html >You have to compile /usr/ports/x11/kdebase3 with motif support. Run >'make config' to change that option, then recompile and install it. I tried this, but the message above is outdated (Thu Jul 22 02:13:13 PDT 2004). Currently in the configuration of the kdebase3 port there is only one option: [X] Suid wrapper for aRts, req'd for realtime prio I am aware that the version of FreeBSD that I use is no longer supported, but is there any way to workaround the necessity of moving to 4Stable, and to get a working plugins for the Firefox browser? Best Regards, Vladimir Tsvetkov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
