[icedtea-web] RFC: support configure's --program-suffix option

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 11:36 Thu 28 Apr     , Omair Majid wrote:
> On 04/28/2011 11:29 AM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> > * Omair Majid<omajid at redhat.com>  [2011-04-28 11:05]:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The attached patch makes icedtea-web support configure's
> >> --program-suffix option.
> >>
> >> A number of distributions use alternatives to manage
> >> /usr/bin/javaws. Using a prefix of /usr makes IcedTea-Web's javaws
> >> conflict with the alternatives-managed /usr/bin/javaws. Using a
> >> --program-suffix is one way to work around this problem and the
> >> patch makes this option work.
> >>
> >> This patch does not modify the names of desktop files, but does fix
> >> the binary names they point to.
> >>
> >> I would like to add this to HEAD and 1.1. Does anyone have any
> >> thoughts or comments?
> >>
> >
> > Changes look fine to me. However I am not sure if itweb-settings needs
> > to be changed too. It is IcedTea-Web specific and quite unlikely to have
> > alternatives at any point in the future.
> >
> 
> I agree that we should not see problems with itweb-settings. On the 
> other hand, --program-suffix will allow you to install two different 
> versions of itweb-settings with different names (say itweb-settings11 
> and itweb-settings12) side by side (though I dont see why someone would 
> want to do this).
> 
> Also applying the value of --program-suffix to only selected binaries 
> breaks the meaning of --program-suffix. What do you think of having a 
> special --javaws-suffix option?
> 

I think the original patch is fine and both should support the option.
There's no harm in providing the option to do it even if you personally
can't think of a reason to.  The facility is there if someone wants to
use it.  As Omair says, installing 1.1 and 2.0 would be one such case.


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Andrew :)

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