RFC: IcedTea-Web and Iced Tea7

Dr Andrew John Hughes gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org
Fri Nov 26 00:25:58 PST 2010


The commands are identical AFAICS and I couldn't see any signature
changes. I'll try and take another look.

On 25/11/2010, Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> wrote:
> * Dr Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org> [2010-11-25 15:00]:
>> IcedTea7 currently fails to build IcedTea-Web. It can't link the
>> launcher due to many missing JLI_* symbols even though it finds libjli
>> AFAICS. I wonder whether they have now been hidden? May be a release
>> stopper depending on the schedule as we don't want to be releasing
>> IcedTea7 with an unmaintained plugin & webstart.
>>
>
> Agreed. IMO icedtea-web should support IcedTea7 just as well as 6.
>
> How are icedtea7's own launchers linking against libjli and finding JLI_*?
>
> Cheers,
> Deepak
>
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