[fedora-java] lib-foo-bar magic name class loading

[Anthony Green]

On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 19:00 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony Green <green at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> Anthony> Should we change libgcj's default behaviour?  If not, adding
> Anthony> -Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never to
> Anthony> startup scripts like /usr/bin/eclipse seems like a good idea.
> Anthony> AFAIK we don't rely on this old class loading trick.
> 
> I think we use it to load the AWT peers.
> It would be reasonable to make a different method to do this, but I
> think it isn't as simple as just changing the default here.

Ok, why don't we just set gnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control
to "never" for eclipse (and perhaps others -- OO.o?  tomcat5?), and file
a bug about finding a new mechanism for AWT peers.

AG