http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49077
--- Comment #6 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-05-20 13:15:15 UTC --- (In reply to comment #5) > (In reply to comment #3) > > gcjwebplugin is dead, it should have been removed, but nobody has done that. > > Just don't enable it in configure. > > Well then what replaces the Firefox plugin functionality - ie. > what happens when I include '--enable-browser-plugin' in configure args ? > A JVM environment and Java SDK is hardly worthy of the name unless it > can be used to run java applets embedded in webpages from the system > browser - how else is one meant to do this using only GCJ components ? > > This problem appears to be the ONLY reason gcjwebplugin fails to build ; > are you sure rumors of its demise are not premature ? It is what the gcjwebplugin authors told me when I reported it to them many months ago. The plugin is maintained as part of icedtea for openjdk, and that's where development and maintainance occurs.
