On 28 March 2011 12:34, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 28/03/11 12:23, Mat Booth wrote: >> 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? >> >> 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 :-/ > > I think autotools has done this since the year dot. It's not going to > change now. > >> Either way, I expect the default settings to just work. > > This isn't just a Fedora problem. Finding JNI libraries is a PITA in > general, and patching OpenJDK to do something different from every other > JRE isn't a good idea. I'm not at all sure it makes sense to fix this > locally in Fedora. We'd want to make sure this is fixed for all GNU/ > Linux systems, everywhere. > > Andrew. > Can open, worms everywhere... :-) For my use case I can just tell the configure script where to go, which I can live with. Thanks for the info, though. -- Mat Booth http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel
