[fedora-java] Default java.library.path in Fedora

[Stanislav Ochotnicky]

Excerpts from Mat Booth's message of Mon Mar 28 13:23:00 +0200 2011:
> On 28 March 2011 12:08, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 26/03/11 18:34, Mat Booth wrote:
> >> In F14's OpenJDK, the default java.library.path currently does not
> >> include /usr/local/lib or /usr/local/lib64 so if a third party JNI
> >> library installs itself into one of those directories then the JVM
> >> will not know about it.
> >>
> >> Is this a bug? I think it would be appropriate if /usr/local/lib and
> >> /usr/local/lib64 were included in the default java.library.path
> >
> > I wouldn't have thought so.  /usr/local/lib isn't really standard for
> > anything.  Even if we could patch OpenJDK to do this, the third party
> > apps would immediately break with any other JRE.
> >
> > Doesn't it make more sense for the app to know where its native library
> > is, and load it from the right place?
> >
> > Andrew.
> > --
>
> I would rather the app not have to care where the libraries are, but
> for some odd reason the autotools in Fedora uses a default prefix of
> /usr/local rather than /usr
>
> If this is not a standard location then maybe this is an autotools
> bug? I shouldn't have to tell the autotools where it is appropriate to
> install things for the operating system it ships with :-/
>
> Either way, I expect the default settings to just work.

I know you already solved your problem, so this is just FYI.

AFAIK autotools always default to /usr/local when doing pure
./configure. Fedora's %configure macro changes --prefix to /usr to
make this correct for us.

So if you are creating some rpm that uses autotools, you'd better use
%configure macro (it sets more things, not just --prefix).


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Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky at redhat.com>
Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno

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