java error at galeon start

chr1z · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 207

any idea? this error is really annoying
i already reemerged java and galeon
does not help :cry:

b-llwyd · Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 1:06 pm Post subject:

It could very well be that you're running a GCC 3.x system...and that java stuff is compiled with 2.x. There are lots of threads out there about this specific problem. What solved it for me was (in short):

chr1z · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 207

i compiled everthing with my GCC 3.x system so that can't be the point

lsiden

If I emerge Mozilla (net-www/mozilla-1.2.1-r5) , it wouldn't load the Java plugin, but if I download Mozilla 1.2.1 from the mozilla.org (or mirror) and build it, it works. "gcc --version" responds with "... 3.2".

The Blackdown JDK/JRE appear to be binary distributions pre-build with gcc < 3.2 and the Portage Moz distribution is clearly built on my machine with gcc 3.2. So it makes sense that there might be an incompatibility. But that doesn't explain why download Moz from mozilla.org and building it does work, unless that distribution is also pre-built with gcc < 3.2.

Anyway, I'm following the advice of b-llwyd and building sun-j2sd and motif (why Motif??), so I'm hoping all will be well when it's finished. (I will be away from home tonight so I won't know until I return tomorrow morning). X-ing my fingers!!!

b-llwyd · Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2003 7:15 am Post subject:

Well, I'm too lazy to search for the threads I had in mind, but there is a problem with a libX* file that Motif applies to the system...if you try to build java against that libX* file, it wont work. You have to unmerge Motif first, to make sure you're building java against the other version of libX*. Or something along that line.

The name of the lib file isn't libX*, of course, but rather something else that I do not remember atm

chr1z · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 207

when i try:

lsiden · Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2003 4:27 pm Post subject:

I didn't have Motif in the first place. Ya mean I didn't have to build it at all!

b-llwyd · Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 9:14 am Post subject:

lsiden · Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 7:52 pm Post subject:

b-llwyd · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 8:20 am Post subject:

In reply to Isiden:
If you do an emerge -s sun-j2sdk you will see that the "Latest version available" is 1.4.0-r2. This is the latest version of the program (or the ebuild) that the portage maintainers consider as 'stable'. There are probably one or two newer versions available in the ebuild directory, but they haven't gone through as thorough testing as the 'stable' version.

The ebuild directory for sun-j2sdk is /usr/portage/dev-java/sun-j2sdk, and in that directory, all current sun-j2sdk ebuilds sit.

If you do a

lsiden · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 12:53 am Post subject:

Thanks for your generous reply. But let me get back to my main task: getting the java-plugin to work in Mozilla.

Here's what I currently have:
sun-jdk-1.4.1.01
mozilla-1.2.1-r5

I soft-linked libjavaplugin_osi.so into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (actually, /usr/lib/nsbrowsers/plugins, do to /usr/lib/mozilla being a soft-link), and it still isn't working.

What do you recommend that I try now?

BTW - I did get it to work when I downloaded the stable Mozilla 1.2.1 from mozilla.org and installed it myself. But I'm a Gentoo newbie and am afraid to corrupt my Portage database or let it get out-of-sync with what's actually on my system, so I went back to getting the Gentoo distribution of Moz 1.2.1, and those have the problem.

Curious that one works but not the other, since the problem is said to be caused b/c Moz and libjavaplugin_osi.so were built with gcc versions. However, both the Portage install of Moz and my own install of Moz presumably are using the same compiler on when they build Moz on my system - gcc 3.2. So I can't figure out why one works and the other doesn't?

With thanks,
Perplexed in Ann Arbor