[fedora-java] /usr/share/java and JNI libraries

[Andrew Haley]

David Walluck writes:
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 > Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
 > > IMHO trying to get the dependencies right on a multilib system will be
 > > a nightmare if you try to share the jars (how do you handle the case
 > > libs in lib64 but not lib?), and you may have the case when /usr/share
 > > is network-mounted on systems with different arches (sparc and
 > > x86_64...) so it's not worth the pain. Just make arch-specific packages
 > > in arch-specific filesystem-space
 > 
 > I am assuming that jars are arch-independent, meaning the md5sum, say,
 > will be the same across platforms.

That may or may not be true.  It is certainly not something you can
assume.

Andrew.