[1.8] RFC: Allow NetX to be disabled

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 16:06 Fri 12 Nov     , Matthias Klose wrote:
> should be ok, if it's not changing anything without having --disable-webstart on 
> the configure args, including configurations --with-additional-vms.
> 

It shouldn't, but please do test and check :-)

The reason for this, as explained in the 1.9 discussion, is so that in future
you'll be able to couple newer 1.8 releases with IcedTea-Web and take advantage
of plugin bug fixes.

>    Matthias
> 
> On 12.11.2010 01:17, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > Same again for 1.8:
> >
> > 2010-11-11  Andrew John Hughes<ahughes at redhat.com>
> >
> > 	* Makefile.am:
> > 	(ICEDTEA_PATCHES): Only apply netx.patch and
> > 	netx-umask.patch if NetX is enabled.
> > 	(distclean-local): Add clean-about.
> > 	(.PHONY): Likewise.
> > 	(icedtea): Depend on about.stamp.  Add
> > 	ENABLE_NETX conditional.
> > 	(icedtea-debug): Likewise.
> > 	(netx): Add ENABLE_NETX conditional.
> > 	(netx-dist): Likewise.
> > 	(extra-class-files): Likewise.
> > 	(about): New target (from extra-lib/about.jar).
> > 	Add ENABLE_NETX conditional.
> > 	(clean-about): New target to remove about.jar.
> > 	* acinclude.m4:
> > 	(IT_CHECK_PLUGIN): Require IT_CHECK_NETX.
> > 	Disable if NetX is turned off.
> > 	(IT_CHECK_NETX): Add --disable-webstart option.
> >
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

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