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

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 21:19 Thu 20 Jan     , Omair Majid wrote:
> 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).
> 

I agree.  Deepak's changes look like a hack to make the JDK tree
installation work flexibly but break everything else.  For 1.1, proper
installation needs to be sorted for the plugin & NetX, and the existing
version in HEAD works fine for this.

> Cheers,
> Omair

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