[fedora-java] difficulties to use swt on fedora

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Mar 9 octobre 2007 09:19, Patrice Dumas a écrit :
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 05:27:43PM -0400, Andrew Overholt wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> * Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> [2007-10-08 17:14]:
>> > /usr/lib/eclipse/swt-gtk-3.3.jar
>> >
>> > Why not in /usr/share/java/swt.jar?
>>
>> It's in %{_libdir} 'cause it's got arch-specific stuff in it.  Care
>> to
>> submit a patch for eclipse.spec to add the version-less symlink?
>
> I think that a version-less symlink should be in /usr/lib/eclipse,
> but additionally, the version-less symlink should also be in a
> directory allowing to do a yum install for the file and get it right,
> therefore in a directory like:
> /usr/lib/java
> /usr/lib/java-ext
> that are both owned by jpackage-utils. And empty in my setting. Would
> one of those directories be suitable?

If you read the jpackage-utils doc you'll see /usr/lib/java was always
reserved for arch-dependant jars.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
Who wonders why he wasted a week-end writing doc no one reads anyway