Re: RFA: enable gcjwebplugin and appletviewer

[Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim at redhat dot com>]

Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> > One question: with the current fastjar situation, is it safe to rely 
> > on the FASTJAR make variable like I've done in 
> > classpath/tools/Makefile.am?
>
> I think FASTJAR points to zip in the current libgcj build, even if you 
> have a real fastjar installed somewhere. It's probably better to avoid 
> referring to FASTJAR if possible though - JAR would be better.

OK, but is JAR guaranteed to be set to an actual jar command, in 
classpath/tools/Makefile?

> > 2006-06-12  Thomas Fitzsimmons  <fitzsim@redhat.com>
> >
> >     * configure: Regenerate.
> >     * Makefile.in: Regenerate.
> >     * configure.ac (--enable-plugin): New option.
> >     (ac_configure_args): Add --enable-tool-wrappers.
>
> I don't think we need a configure option for --enable-tool-wrappers, 
> building them should always be enabled (or at least, should be the 
> default).

The patch adds --enable-tool-wrappers to the ac_configure_args variable, not to 
libjava/configure.  The ac_configure_args variable holds the configure arguments 
passed to libjava/classpath/configure.  So with this patch, the tools are always 
built and installed.

> Is there an autoconf test to detect the mozilla headers needed to build 
> the plugin? It would be nice to also make --enable-plugin the default, 
> if AWT is enabled and the required headers are found.

No, there is no good way to detect the Mozilla headers without requiring 
pkg-config, which is not a requirement of gcc.  In my last patch I assumed 
pkg-config was a valid dependency and doing so broke the bootstrap on some 
platforms.

Tom