On 12:34 Mon 28 Mar , Andrew Haley 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. > Correct: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Default-Prefix And it's the correct default IMHO so local user installations don't interfere with system/distro-installed packages in /usr. > > 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. > I agree. If it's to be done at all, it needs to be discussed on the appropriate OpenJDK mailing list (probably core-libs-dev or hotspot-dev). > Andrew. > -- > java-devel mailing list > java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and IcedTea http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://icedtea.classpath.org PGP Key: F5862A37 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EA30 D855 D50F 90CD F54D 0698 0713 C3ED F586 2A37 -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel
