On 28 March 2011 12:08, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 26/03/11 18:34, Mat Booth wrote: >> In F14's OpenJDK, the default java.library.path currently does not >> include /usr/local/lib or /usr/local/lib64 so if a third party JNI >> library installs itself into one of those directories then the JVM >> will not know about it. >> >> Is this a bug? I think it would be appropriate if /usr/local/lib and >> /usr/local/lib64 were included in the default java.library.path > > I wouldn't have thought so. /usr/local/lib isn't really standard for > anything. Even if we could patch OpenJDK to do this, the third party > apps would immediately break with any other JRE. > > Doesn't it make more sense for the app to know where its native library > is, and load it from the right place? > > Andrew. > -- I would rather the app not have to care where the libraries are, but for some odd reason the autotools in Fedora uses a default prefix of /usr/local rather than /usr If this is not a standard location then maybe this is an autotools bug? I shouldn't have to tell the autotools where it is appropriate to install things for the operating system it ships with :-/ Either way, I expect the default settings to just work. -- Mat Booth http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel
