Hello,
I work with Sleepycat Software (makers of Berkeley DB). We build Java
native libraries (loadable modules written in C using the JNI APIs)
using libtool for various target platforms.
In fielding reports from folks porting to OS X we see that the Java
runtime there requires native libraries to have a .jnilib extension,
instead of .so, which is what we get with libtool (using -module). Of
course, just renaming the resulting .so doesn't work because of
SONAME. I believe to accommodate OS X with their Java runtime, we
need to have some way to switch to a different extension. I was
of a libtool option:
--moduleext=.jnilib
but to add this to libtool correctly requires every line in libtool.m4
with 'library_names_spec=' to be touched. That's a lot of changes,
the vast majority of which I cannot test. Maybe safer would be
a step after library_names_spec is set, and does:
library_names_spec='${libname}${value_of_module_ext_option} '"$library_names_spec"
That is, effectively making libfoo.jnilib be created and have any
other names link to it. I think that works. Or am I missing a better
way to solve this problem? I'd be glad to make this change and test
it on OS X if you all agree it's the right approach.
- Don
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Don Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sleepycat Software Inc. +1-978-287-4781
118 Tower Rd. http://www.sleepycat.com
Lincoln, MA 01773
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