pluginappletviewer location/installation

[Matthew Flaschen]

I use the IcedTea version of gcjwebplugin by symlinking it to my
~/.plugins.  By default, this will give an error like:

gcjwebplugin error: Failed to run
/home/user/IcedTea/hg/../../bin/pluginappletviewer.  For more detail
rerun "firefox -g" in a terminal window.

This is because line 1530 of gcjwebplugin.cc says:

 appletviewer_executable = g_strdup_printf
("%s/../../bin/pluginappletviewer",

As a workaround, I created a bin symlink to
IcedTea/hg/openjdk/control/build/linux-i586/bin two directories above
the hg directory (where gcjwebplugin.so is).

So now, hg/gcjwebplugin.so can find hg/../../bin, which goes to
hg/openjdk/control/build/linux-i586/bin

But this doesn't make much sense.  One option is to hard-code the
correct path (openjdk/control/build/linux-i586/bin), but that's not a
good long-term option either.  Can someone think of a solution that
isn't a hack?  Perhaps it's time for an install target.

Matt Flaschen