On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 01:50:10PM -0400, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> applications that use the AWT Native Interface refer to "libjawt.so". 
> For binary compatibility with other AWT Native Interface implementations 
> our .so must be named the same.
> 
> Note to packagers: libjawt.so should be installed in VM-specific 
> directory rather than directly in /usr/lib.  Proprietary VMs put their 
> libjawt.so implementations in VM-specific directories but search 
> /usr/lib first.  If GNU Classpath's libjawt.so is installed in /usr/lib 
> it will create problems for people using a proprietary VM to run AWT 
> Native Interface apps.

This should also be mentioned in the NEWS file.


Cheers,
Michael
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