[icedtea-web] - problems configuring with: --disable-plugin

[Jiri Vanek]

On 10/12/18 2:55 PM, Treutwein Bernhard wrote:
> Dear Jiri,
> 
> [...]
>> This is right place to ask.
>>
> good to hear.
> 
>> Where did you find old --disable-plugin?
> 
> I found it in the README, line 76 & 123.

Crap. Escaped one:) Will fix it.
> 
> In configure --help there is no trace of it, there is only the  --disable-native-plugin
> but I did not double-check it after having found it in the README and I guess I
> would have been a little bit confused.
> 
> It looks much better with --disable-native-plugin, configure finishes without
> any error, but I think I still have search for and use tagsoup.jar before proceeding.
> 
> What exactly does the --disable-pluginjar? I do not really understand the meaning of 
> the explanation: "Disable compilation of plugin.jar for javaws -html"

ITW have an suspicious feature to parse html, and run applets from it. This is provided by plugin
jar, but its price i to depend on applet classes in JDK, which may be removed any time.
> 
> Thanks for the quick help.

Happy that helped. Happy hacking!
   J.