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Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote: |
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> Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> I don't see how symlinks in /usr/include can work. If there are two |
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> users on a system, each with his own prefered VM, how can we export two |
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> sets of symlinks for that system? |
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True. |
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> Of course you can argue that this is an unlikely situation, but what if |
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> root stops the merge with a ctrl-C? Then the /usr/include/jni.h will be |
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> completely wrong, in this scheme. |
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That is is out of the question then. |
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> As you pointed out yourself, some packages try to be smart and find the |
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> jni.h themselves. If they use something like if [ -x ${path}/jni.h ], |
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> putting an -I in CFLAGS won't help much, and the configure script will |
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> probably stop with an error. |
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This is one the issues to discuss at DevJam. Standards are a good thing. |
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Well you could ensure that -I is the first option to the compiler but I |
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agree that it we should come up with something more bullet proof. |
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> If the package tries to find the jni.h by compiling with various -I |
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> options, we may get lucky. The only remaining problem then is ensuring |
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> that we in fact do _not_ have a gcj-installed jni.h in /usr/include, |
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> since that may take precedence. |
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Let's mail upstream and see what happens. |
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> -- Karl T |
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Regards, |
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Petteri Räty |
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