This patch disables the plugin by default and adds a warning about its unmaintained status, should it be enabled.
2010-05-27 Andrew John Hughes <ahug...@redhat.com> * configure.ac: Disable plugin by default and warn about unmaintained status when enabled. -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint = F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
Index: configure.ac =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/classpath/classpath/configure.ac,v retrieving revision 1.247 diff -u -u -r1.247 configure.ac --- configure.ac 27 May 2010 10:32:55 -0000 1.247 +++ configure.ac 27 May 2010 11:56:19 -0000 @@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL(CREATE_QT_PEER_LIBRARIES, test "x${COMPILE_QT_PEER}" = xyes) dnl ----------------------------------------------------------- -dnl Plugin (enabled by default) +dnl Plugin (disabled by default) dnl ----------------------------------------------------------- AC_ARG_ENABLE([plugin], [AS_HELP_STRING(--disable-plugin,compile gcjwebplugin (disabled by --disable-plugin) [default=yes])], @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ no) COMPILE_PLUGIN=no ;; *) COMPILE_PLUGIN=yes ;; esac], - [COMPILE_PLUGIN=yes]) + [COMPILE_PLUGIN=no]) AM_CONDITIONAL(CREATE_PLUGIN, test "x${COMPILE_PLUGIN}" = xyes) dnl ----------------------------------------------------------- @@ -1158,3 +1158,7 @@ if test x$use_escher != xtrue; then echo gnu/java/awt/peer/x/.*java$ >> lib/standard.omit fi + +if test "x${COMPILE_PLUGIN}" = "xyes" ; then + AC_MSG_WARN([You have enabled the browser plugin. Please note that this is no longer maintained as part of GNU Classpath; development has moved to the IcedTea project.]) +fi