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 -- Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html Join the community at http://planet.classpath.org/
