[fedora-java] FC6 gcj notes

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

Hi,

David Walluck wrote:
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> Mark Wielaard wrote:
>> And there is now a patch for 0.92-pre (hopefully close to 0.92 final)
>> for HEAD: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2006-07/msg00057.html
>> Testers welcome! Hopefully we will be able to backport most of that to
>> 4.1
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> Why is gcjwebplugin being installed to $HOME? This makes no sense as
> part of an rpm build.

What RPM are you building, exactly?

> Unfortunately, it just locks my firefox solid on
> x86-64, so I would not want it enabled by default in an rpm anyway. (I
> did get a message at one point and if I see it again, I will try to post
> a bug). It seems to be waiting indefinitely for something and in the
> meantime the browser just hangs.

Try running gappletviewer standalone, e.g.:

gappletviewer http://thisiscool.com

When the browser hangs like this, it means that gappletviewer is 
misconfigured.  If gappletviewer is not misconfigured then the browser 
will never hang.

> 
> Note also that we should now have gjarsigner and gkeytool in addition to
> gappletviewer, so java-1.4.2-gcj-compat should be set up to make slave
> symlinks for these three new bins.

See:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127537

The libgcj backport, which adds libgcjwebplugin.so and gappletviewer to 
the libgcj RPM for the first time, is building right now; as soon as it 
lands in Rawhide I will release a new version of java-1.4.2-gcj-compat 
that includes java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-plugin.

Tom