[Bug java/49077] gcjwebplugin.cc doesn't compile against latestxulrunner 2.0 (firefox-3.6) sdk

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49077

--- Comment #6 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-05-20 13:15:15 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > gcjwebplugin is dead, it should have been removed, but nobody has done that.
> > Just don't enable it in configure.
> 
> Well then what replaces the Firefox plugin functionality - ie.
> what happens when I include '--enable-browser-plugin' in configure args ?
> A JVM environment and Java SDK is hardly worthy of the name unless it
> can be used to run java applets embedded in webpages from the system
> browser - how else is one meant to do this using only GCJ components ?
> 
> This problem appears to be the ONLY reason gcjwebplugin fails to build ;
> are you sure rumors of its demise are not premature ?

It is what the gcjwebplugin authors told me when I reported it to them many
months ago.  The plugin is maintained as part of icedtea for openjdk, and
that's where development and maintainance occurs.