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Re: [Gcjwebplugin-devel] a few notes
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Thomas Fitzsimmons |
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Re: [Gcjwebplugin-devel] a few notes |
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Tue, 24 May 2005 20:18:38 -0400 |
Hi,
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 17:29 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> I tried building gcjwebplugin today.
>
> First, it doesn't install properly for me. At least with libtool
> 1.5.2, no file named '.libs/libgcjwebplugin.so' is made, so the custom
> 'install' step fails.
Strange. I tried building with libtool 1.5.2
and .libs/libgcjwebplugin.so was always made. Any idea why we'd see
different results?
> A change (appended) to make this not use a
> custom install rule still does not do the right thing, I think,
> because the installed library doesn't have a '.so' suffix.
>
> Second, I see this:
>
> Makefile:616: warning: overriding commands for target `gcjappletviewer'
> Makefile:548: warning: ignoring old commands for target `gcjappletviewer'
>
> Automake doesn't really understand the conditional AC_CONFIG_FILES
> call in configure.ac, so it makes the resulting Makefile rule
> unconditional. I think one fix for this would be to unconditionally
> call AC_CONFIG_FILES, rename the file it generates, and then in the
> Makefile.am have a conditional rule like:
>
> gcjappletviewer: cfappletviewer
> cp cfappletviewer gcjappletviewer
Fixed in CVS.
>
>
> Third, the code in StandaloneAppletViewer.java that adds '.class' to
> the argument is it does not see a suffix is buggy. In particular, if
> you try my test case you will see weird results; commenting out this
> bit of code makes it work:
>
> ./gcjappletviewer http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1069669
>
Fixed in CVS.
Tom