[icedtea-web] RFC: add binaries to jre/bin as well (was backport changeset 9397074c2c39 to icedtea-web 1.0)

[Omair Majid]

On 01/20/2011 06:59 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> * Omair Majid<omajid at redhat.com>  [2011-01-20 15:57]:
>>
>> The attached patch hacks the launcher so it simply passes along
>> argv[0] to Netx as the system property "java.icedtea-web.bin". Netx
>> can then run itself by running the value of this system property.
>>
>> Can you please look over the patch to see if it makes sense?
>>
>
> I don't think it needs to be that complex (modifying the .c files and
> all). Please see the patch I just posted in this thread:
>
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-January/011814.html
>
> It is against HEAD and mitigates this issue. If approved, I can push it
> into 1.0 after 9397074c2c39, otherwise I will post a subset thereof.
>

For 1.0, I agree that the patch I posted may be too complex. But going 
forward, when IcedTea-Web becomes installable under /usr/, it may be the 
only way of telling javaws how to invoke itself (and still being 
relocatable).

Cheers,
Omair