Re: Why do kaffe shared libraries get installed in share/kaffe/lib?

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From: Archie Cobbs (archie@whistle.com)
Date: Tue Nov 10 1998 - 13:05:54 EST

Alexandre Oliva writes:
> > I think you don't need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH because kaffe
> > "knows" where to look when calling dlopen()
>
> It didn't find them for me, that's how I (actually, a co-worker of
> mine) found out about this... But this is for kaffe 1.0.b2; it might
> have been fixed after that. Was it your Oct 9's change?
>
> * kaffe/kaffevm/external.c: fall back to using LIBRARYPATH if
> nothing specified by Kaffe_JavaVMArgs, for backward compatibility
> (suggested by James Lundblad <jamesl@eecs.berkeley.edu>)

Hmm.. don't remember (try it)

> > Notice libkaffevm *is* in /usr/local/lib, whereas all the
> > others are under /usr/local/share/kaffe/lib/ ...
>
> Which is wrong, since share is meant to be shared across multiple
> architectures.

Agreed.. they should be in /usr/local/lib/kaffe/... or:

> Maybe they should be moved into $exec_prefix/lib/runtime, or just
> relocated from share/kaffe/lib/*-* to lib/*-*...

-Archie

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