pluginappletviewer location/installation

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 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.

You're linking to the wrong copy of gcjwebplugin.so.  Here's how I install it:

ln -s 
/notnfs/fitzsim/sources/icedtea/openjdk/control/build/linux-i586/j2sdk-image/jre/lib/i386/gcjwebplugin.so 
~/.mozilla/plugins/

> 
> 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.

I didn't want to install pluginappletviewer in /usr/bin because it is an 
implementation-private binary that normal users shouldn't run.  So it won't be 
in PATH.  The only other way to find it is in a known location, relative to 
gcjwebplugin.so, within JAVA_HOME.

Tom