[fedora-java] FC6 gcj notes

[David Walluck]

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Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> What RPM are you building, exactly?

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that there was an rpm. I meant that as a
warning for when the new libgcj rpm appears.

> 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.

Running standalone, I get

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
gnu.classpath.tools.appletviewer.Main

tools.zip is supposedly added to the classpath using

- -Xbootclasspath/p:"${tools_cp}"

But gij doesn't support this, at least on the 4.1.1 release I am using
(jamvm works).

> 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.

So, how is the plugin installation handled? It seems that the GNU plugin
will override, say, the blackdown plugin for any applets. since the GNU
plugin isn't going through the alternatives system and is just getting
put in the plugin path first. In addition to not liking the configure
for the plugin install location, I don't like how it is looking for
mozilla, when it seems you should also be able to use mozilla-firefox
without problems.

- --
Sincerely,

David Walluck
<david at zarb.org>
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