Bug 287675 – multilib systems can use 64bit and 32bit java plugins

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org

[Description jalan 2009-10-04 19:39:24 UTC]

Section 7 of the java documentation says that multilib systems can only use 32bit java plugins, but this is no longer the case (hooray!)

The doc should probably point out that we can now use
"eselect java-nsplugin set [32bit or 64bit] [nsplugin-vm]"
to set up our 32bit and 64bit plugin choices individually.

Thanks

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) 2009-10-04 21:53:56 UTC]

We don't have a stable version of Java that provides a 64-bit nsplugin, do we?

Java team, please comment.

[Comment 2 jalan 2009-10-04 22:08:03 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> We don't have a stable version of Java that provides a 64-bit nsplugin, do we?

I run stable on amd64, and I have a 64-bit plugin. It's from =dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.15

[Comment 3 Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED) 2009-10-05 09:20:10 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> We don't have a stable version of Java that provides a 64-bit nsplugin, do we?
> 
> Java team, please comment.
 
comment #2 is right, sun-jdk-1.6.0.15 (and sun-jre-bin) provides it.

[Comment 4 nm (RETIRED) 2009-10-05 09:56:17 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > We don't have a stable version of Java that provides a 64-bit nsplugin, do we?
> > 
> > Java team, please comment.
> 
> comment #2 is right, sun-jdk-1.6.0.15 (and sun-jre-bin) provides it.

Sweeeeeet. I've been using icedtea6-in since it was still in the Java overlay, but it's always been ~arch, so we couldn't include it in the guide. Now that there's a stable alternative, I'll see what I can do about adding 64-bit and 32-bit plugin info.

[Comment 5 nm (RETIRED) 2009-10-07 18:33:03 UTC]

Fixed in CVS.