RFC: make IcedTea-web to be compatible with RHEL5 libraries

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 12:48 Wed 18 May     , Pavel Tisnovsky wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've found that IcedTea-web can not be build on RHEL5 because this
> system has older glibc libraries (2.5-*) and some code in
> IcedTeaNPPlugin.cc depends on newer functions.
> 
> I've tried to rewrite this class not to use these functions. Can anybody
> please look at these changes? They are stored in an attachments as patch
> file.
> 
> Any comments are welcome!
> 
> Cheers,
> Pavel

Looking at the changes, I think you mean glib not glibc.

I don't think this is the right way to fix this.  If RHEL5 is missing these
glib functions, we should test for that in configure and use local definitions
of those functions, rather than using inferior functions on all platforms.
-- 
Andrew :)

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