185780 - java plugin not working

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 179180

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Alberto Ferrante]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021202
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021202

Using a 1.2.1 Mozilla release compiled from src.rpm sources on RH 8, the java
plugin is not recognized (in the page "about plugins" it isn't shown even if it
is correctly installed). Using the "official" Mozilla RPMs, all works correctly.
Updating the official RPMs with my own compiled ones I can view the plugin in
the "about plugins" window), but the plugin still does not work: in the webpages
containing a java applet the advice saying I have no java plugin is shown.
I am using the JDK 1.4.1.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Compile the src RPMs under RH 8 (is a little tricky, the spec file is
mistakenly looking for gcc 2.96, just install the sources, modify the specfile
and do a "rpmbuild --bb <specfile name>)
2.Install the RPMs
3.configure the java plugin (create a symlink to the java plugin in the
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins dir)

Actual Results:  
The java plugin does not work

Expected Results:  
The java plugin works

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

upgrade to 1.2.1 and mention URLs not working.

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

the spec file doesn't mistakenly look for gcc 2.96. Resolving as dup of bug 179180
See also bug 116444.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 179180 ***