On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:51:18 -0500, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> Braden McDaniel wrote:
[snip]
>> It's looking like my best option is to eke out all the information I
>> can from libgcj.pc. Assuming libjvm.so is reliably installed in
>> ${libdir}/gcj-${gcj_version} across distributions, I should be able to
>> get what I need from it.
>
> The problem with this approach is that this directory is versioned. So
> if you hard-code /usr/lib/gcj-4.1.1 into your application, it will break
> when the user upgrades to gcj 4.1.2. You could do a search for
> /usr/lib*/gcj-*, but this is something that java-gcj-compat is intended
> to do for you; it always keeps its unversioned libjvm.so symlink
> pointing to the right place.
Sigh. That's a good point.
Once you fold java-gcj-compat into libgcj, what would you think of
publishing a JAVA_HOME variable in the pkg-config metadata?
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