Bug 58951 – gplflash 0.4.10-r3 not working with firefox (0.9)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Florian Huber 2004-07-30 16:59:15 UTC]

gplflash 0.4.10 is not working on my amd64 system compiled with gcc 3.4. The plugin shared-lib fails to load (see below).


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge gplflash
2. /usr/lib/MozillaFirexof/firefox
3.

Actual Results:  
$ /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/firefox
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /opt/netscape/plugins/npflash.so
[/opt/netscape/plugins/npflash.so: undefined symbol: __dso_handle]


Expected Results:  
gplflash plugin show up in about:plugins in firefox and work :)

# emerge info
Portage 2.0.50-r9 (gcc34-amd64-2004.1, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r0, 2.6.8
-rc2-bk1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-rc2-bk1 x86_64 4
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.1
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/s
hare/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache fixpackages sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X X509 acpi alsa amd amd64 avi berkdb cddb cdr crypt curl devfs26 dga diet 
divx4linux dv dvb dvd dvdr encode esd ethereal evo ffmpeg flac flash fmod freety
pe gd gdbm gif gimp gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 ipv6 jabber java 
jikes jpeg libwww maildir memlimit mpeg mpeg4 multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nv
idia offensive oggvorbis opengl openssh pam pcap pdflib perl pic plotutils png p
ython qhull quicktime readline scanner sdk sdl slang speedo speex src ssl tcc ti
ff transcode truetype type1 unicode usb v4l v4l2 vanilla vim-with-x wmf xface xi
ne xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib zvbi"

[Comment 1 Joel Hill (RETIRED) 2004-07-31 12:55:02 UTC]

sorry guys i only did a little thing ong gplflash ages ago and this could be alot of work, i use macromedia's :(

assigning back for distro...

[Comment 2 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-08-06 05:56:47 UTC]

emerge -s gplflash

*  net-www/gplflash
      Latest version available: 0.4.10-r3
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of downloaded files: 350 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.swift-tools.net/Flash/
      Description: GPL Shockwave Flash Player/Plugin, Supports Older Ver <=4 Only
      License:     GPL-2

Note the description.  Gplflash doesn't work for anything mozilla.  You would have to use it with netscape-communicator or netscape-navigator.