Re: /usr/lib/jni not put in java.library.path, sun java 5 and 6

2010-11-18 Thread Scott Howard
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > not good. The license only allows unmodified distribution, plus it only > "helps" when calling the "java" binary, not when starting the VM in other > ways. > >  Matthias If that's the way it is, then that's it. If the license only allows u

Re: /usr/lib/jni not put in java.library.path, sun java 5 and 6

2010-11-18 Thread Matthias Klose
On 17.11.2010 17:09, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: Le mercredi 17 novembre 2010 à 10:54 -0500, Scott Howard a écrit : tags 382686 patch thanks On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Scott Howard wrote: I also don't know if a user setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH on their own overwrites our java.library.path Se

Re: /usr/lib/jni not put in java.library.path, sun java 5 and 6

2010-11-18 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Le jeudi 18 novembre 2010 à 09:45 -0500, Scott Howard a écrit : > > However, I don't see this change going in Squeeze. If you are OK, I will > > upload your modification as soon as Squeeze is out (and also in Ubuntu). > > This will allow us some deeper testing and potential side effects. > > > > Ho

Re: /usr/lib/jni not put in java.library.path, sun java 5 and 6

2010-11-18 Thread Scott Howard
> However, I don't see this change going in Squeeze. If you are OK, I will > upload your modification as soon as Squeeze is out (and also in Ubuntu). > This will allow us some deeper testing and potential side effects. > > How does it sound ? > Sylvestre Sounds great - I didn't expect it to get in

Re: /usr/lib/jni not put in java.library.path, sun java 5 and 6

2010-11-17 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Le mercredi 17 novembre 2010 à 10:54 -0500, Scott Howard a écrit : > tags 382686 patch > thanks > > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Scott Howard wrote: > > I also don't > > know if a user setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH on their own overwrites our > > java.library.path > > > > Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Re: /usr/lib/jni not put in java.library.path, sun java 5 and 6

2010-11-17 Thread Scott Howard
tags 382686 patch thanks On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Scott Howard wrote: > I also don't > know if a user setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH on their own overwrites our > java.library.path > Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH appends java.library.path, but passing -Djava.library.path to java overwrites java.libr

Re: /usr/lib/jni not put in java.library.path, sun java 5 and 6

2010-11-13 Thread Scott Howard
Le vendredi 12 novembre 2010 à 09:51 -0500, Scott Howard a écrit : > I would to revisit this bug. I agree with the debian policy decision > to keep compiled binaries in /usr/lib/jni/, but I'm getting frequent > bug reports and emails form users of a library I maintain telling me > that I installed

Re: /usr/lib/jni not put in java.library.path, sun java 5 and 6

2010-11-12 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Le vendredi 12 novembre 2010 à 09:51 -0500, Scott Howard a écrit : > affects 382686 sun-java6-jre > thanks > > I would to revisit this bug. I agree with the debian policy decision > to keep compiled binaries in /usr/lib/jni/, but I'm getting frequent > bug reports and emails form users of a librar

Re: /usr/lib/jni not put in java.library.path, sun java 5 and 6

2010-11-12 Thread Scott Howard
affects 382686 sun-java6-jre thanks I would to revisit this bug. I agree with the debian policy decision to keep compiled binaries in /usr/lib/jni/, but I'm getting frequent bug reports and emails form users of a library I maintain telling me that I installed the library to the wrong location [1-8

/usr/lib/jni not put in java.library.path, sun java 5 and 6

2010-09-07 Thread Scott Howard
Hello debian java maintainers, The Java policy says [1]: "If a virtual machine supports native code, it must include the directory /usr/lib/jni in its search path for these dynamic libraries." openjdk6 was patched to allow looking for JNI libraries in /usr/lib/jni in bug 517338 [2], and was fixed