Java guidelines questions

[Jerry James]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
> Practically speaking you could just put it in /usr/lib because we will
> never support multilib Java.
>
> However, if you want to put it on /usr/lib64 on x86_64 to make the
> filesystem prettier, take a look at how the javasqlite package does
> it:
> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/javasqlite/

Thanks for the pointer.  I'd like to abide by the guidelines so my
package doesn't get dinged during review.

> We just need to make the regular OpenJDK System.loadLibrary search
> both locations.

That would require putting the .so files in /usr/lib or /usr/lib64,
not a subdirectory thereof, wouldn't it?  I understood that the
subdirectories are required because these .so files are not for
general use, so we don't want ldconfig to know about them; they
typically do not have sonames, for example.  One possible solution is
to collect all native .so files in /usr/lib/java and /usr/lib64/java,
similar to how we collect jars.  Then the System.loadLibrary for both
OpenJDK and GNU Classpath would have to be modified to look in those
locations.
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Jerry James
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