Re: [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(a)redhat.com&gt; 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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