[ping] [RFC] Re: [RFC] Re: RFC: make IcedTea-web to be compatible with RHEL5 libraries

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 12:08 Thu 21 Jul     , Jiri Vanek wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> This patch is another attempt o make icedtea-web buildable on rhel 5 with older libraries. Before build of plugin itself is started, then testing c++ program is tried to be linked with same options. If this compilation fails, then original IcedTeaNPPlugin.cc is backuped,  glibBuildable.patch is applied to IcedTeaNPPlugin.cc and then plugin is linked.
> During clean-plugin original IcedTeaNPPlugin.cc is restored from backup (and when test application is compiled, then this binary is deleted, also backup is delete)
> 
> Please, when you will ask me to include this "solution" more to configure (or autotools or anywhere) then I will need a little bit of help.
> 

I suggest taking a look at the autoconf manual and function detection:

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Library-Functions

Then, rather than patching, I'd add a header file with #ifdefs to handle both cases.

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Andrew :)

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