Re: [Gcjwebplugin-devel] a few notes

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

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