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There has been a few discussions in the past about pkg-config on the OpenJDK mailing lists, the first one back from 2009 http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg- dev/2009-July/006480.html Another thread was started last year on two OpenJDK mailing lists, most messages are the same but a few have been sent only to one of those mailing lists: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2014-August/003511.html http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2014-June/028371.html again no consensus and no conclusion was reached, the thread either died down or continued in private. One of those messages linked to a bug report which has an interesting comment from Omair: "Basically, it's wrong for fedora packages to link against a specific JVM. We use alternatives and JAVA_HOME to allow users to select the right VM at runtime. Linking directly against a VM runs against this. Individual programs needs to be fixed to use dlopen() on the appropriate JVM and use that." @ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740762#c27 Petr's reply was "Which still leaves the burden of locating the shared library location on the application. If pkg-config is not suitable solution, another locator should be provided." - very reasonable, but no further discussion happened over what such locator or solution would look like. If you believe this is not the case, please let us know or even forward this request upstream, possibly both to OpenJDK [1] and IcedTea [2]. [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss [2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/distro-pkg-dev ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #740762 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740762 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1518741 Title: A pkg-config file is need for OpenJDK distributions To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/+bug/1518741/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
