Gentoo Archives: gentoo-java

From: "Peter B. West" <lists@××××××.au>
To: gentoo-java@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] jai
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:10:32
Message-Id: 432E9C20.3020701@pbw.id.au
1 Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > Peter B. West wrote:
3 >
4 >>What's the story with jai? When I install jai, I get some messages
5 >>about usage, involving very convoluted arguments to java.
6 >>
7 >>Peter
8 >
9 >
10 > Well the message is useful if you want to use sun-jai-bin in your own
11 > projects. Our applications should install wrapper scripts that do this
12 > for you automatically. sun-jai-bin installs a jar file and a native
13 > library on x86. So to use you need to give java both of these files as
14 > arguments and this can be done using java-config. Actually all of our
15 > libraries could have these types of instructions but I think that those
16 > who want to code against libraries know how to use them. I don't know
17 > the history behind the instructions but they have been added there for
18 > some reason. Please feel free to provide a better one and I will update
19 > the ebuild.
20 >
21 > Regards,
22 > Petteri Räty (Betelgeuse)
23 >
24
25 Ok. So I link from .../jre/lib/ext and .../jre/lib/i386 to the jars in
26 /usr/share/jai-bin and /opt/jai-bin, and forget about the args and
27 wrappers. Will this break anything?
28
29 Peter
30 --
31 Peter B. West <http://cv.pbw.id.au/>
32 Folio <http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/>

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