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

[Omair Majid]

On 01/21/2011 08:37 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>
> 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.
>

The version in HEAD suffers from a problem as Deepak pointed out: the 
binaries have the path coded in them at build time. If I move the 
binaries to a different location after building them, they will not work.

This particular issue is what my patch to launcher/java.c addresses.

Cheers,
Omair