----- Original Message ----- > Hi Kumar, > > On 07/23/2012 11:19 AM, Kumar Srinivasan wrote: > > My suggestion is to see if System.loadLibrary can be used, this > > will > > bode well for the modularization effort. > > I discussed this with the folks at awt-dev and they would prefer to > avoid loading as much as possible. They are strongly against always > preloading libjawt.so. >
For my 2c, I'm against it too. It doesn't seem the right fix. > > If this *must* be added to RPATH in which case, append this last > > to > > ensure we don't break anything. > > Yes, the awt folks have asked me to use this approach. The attached > patch updates the RPATH in the launchers to add the arch dir to > RPATH. > I don't see an attachment :-( Shouldn't it be a webrev anyway? > A couple of questions: > > 1. I am not sure if this problem exists on windows or on other > operating > systems and what sort of fixes are appropriate there. How do I deal > with > this? Worry about it if someone reports issues there? :-D I guess some kind person at Oracle could build and test there... > > 2. This patch uses RPATH (and not RUNPATH). This makes it impossible > to > use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to override the linker path. I don't see any > potential dangerous effects (pretty much all libraries in the have an > RPATH), and I suspect it's even intentional (so JDK6 can exec JDK7 > with > an LD_LIBRARY_PATH set and things will continue working). Does > OpenJDK > support platforms with RUNPATH (-Wl,--enable-new-dtags) ? > > 3. I cant seem to get http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/build to build. > It > seems to be missing a number of fixes needed to build with newer > versions of gcc and glibc. The patch applies to both jdk8/build and > jdk7u/jdk7u-dev. I have only build with 7. > I built jdk8/build successfully just last week. What issues are you seeing? You can always push to a different 8 tree which builds, I guess. > Thanks, > Omair > -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
