[fedora-java] Re: [JPackage-discuss] extension directories

[Anthony Green]

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 12:06 -0500, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> > +  nargv = (char **) malloc ((argc + 2) * sizeof(char *));
> > +  nargv[0] = argv[0];
> > +  nargv[1] = "-Djava.ext.dirs=" JAVA_HOME "/jre/lib/ext:/usr/share/java-ext";
> 
> Should we still include /usr/share/java-ext?  That seems incompatible
> since no proprietary JVM would include that directory.

What is the point of /usr/share/java-ext then?

BTW, there's a mistake in that patch...
 
+  nargv[1] = "-Djava.ext.dirs=" JAVA_HOME "/lib/ext:/usr/share/java-ext";

> Do we need a similar change in javac?

Maybe, although it's less critical since the extensions I care about are
security providers.

AG