[fedora-java] /usr/share/java and JNI libraries

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

David Walluck wrote:
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> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> IMHO trying to get the dependencies right on a multilib system will be
>> a nightmare if you try to share the jars (how do you handle the case
>> libs in lib64 but not lib?), and you may have the case when /usr/share
>> is network-mounted on systems with different arches (sparc and
>> x86_64...) so it's not worth the pain. Just make arch-specific packages
>> in arch-specific filesystem-space
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> I am assuming that jars are arch-independent, meaning the md5sum, say,
> will be the same across platforms. I don't understand when you say ``you
> may have the case when /usr/share is network-mounted on systems with
> different archs''---arch-dependent files don't go in /usr/share in the
> first place.

There's also the case of jar files that bundle arch-dependent compiled code. 
Andrew, how is that handled in the Fedora Eclipse RPMs?

Tom