[Sorry for the long email; I have a lot of questions.] > http://people.debian.org/~opal/java/policy.html/ > http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2001/debian-java-200107/msg00000.html
I did read the policy, and I have now looked over the JNI email thread.
I'm a little confused about how the policy is actually implemented,
through. For instance, I can see that for libraries like libxalan-java
and libxerces-java, I get:
/usr/share/java/xerces.jar
/usr/share/java/xalan.jar
This looks like it matches the policy. However, for other libaries like
lib-gnu.getopt-java, I get:
/usr/share/java/repositories/gnu/getopt/<class files>
This doesn't match the policy OR the directory structure proposed in the
JNI-related email thread.
The main (only?) JNI example I have found so far is libreadline-java,
which installs:
/usr/share/java/libreadline-java.jar -> libreadline-java-0.6.jar
(which seems sensible) but then relies on the separately-managed:
/usr/lib/libreadline.so
/usr/lib/libedit.so
None of these quite match the way NBIO is laid out. The NBIO library ends
up having four different sets of things to install:
- libNBIO.so
- 16 class files
- some README-style documentation
- some Javadoc documentation
It seems to me that to meet the policy, I should create package
libnbio-java, which installs/creates:
/usr/lib/java/libNBIO.so
/usr/share/java/libnbio.jar
/usr/doc/libnbio-java -> /usr/share/doc/libnbio-java
My questions are:
1) Am I correct that I should be creating a .jar rather than
installing the 16 class files individually? If not, where
should the class files go?
2) Where should I put the javadoc documentation? Seems like
html/ in the base documentation directory is a good place,
but (for instance) the getopt javadoc files are just put
right in the base documentation directory, not in html/.
Which is right?
3) There are two conflicting values for the preferred location
of JNI shared libraries - /usr/lib/java and /usr/lib/java/jni.
Which is correct?
4) Is it my responsibility to ensure that the system-wide
$LD_LIBRARY_PATH includes /usr/lib/java (or /usr/lib/java/jni),
so that the JNI libraries are found?
Thanks again for the help.
KEN
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