<AWT Dev> JAWT Breakage in OpenJDK 7/8

Omair Majid omajid at redhat.com
Wed Aug 8 15:37:50 PDT 2012


Hi Anthony,

On 08/07/2012 09:18 AM, Anthony Petrov wrote:
> I've also read the discussion that took place on build-dev@ regarding
> this issue, and it seems to me that adding an RPATH entry to launchers
> is the right solution for this issue. We may want to also add a comment
> there and state that this entry is added specifically to address the
> jawt use case. Perhaps it makes sense to also add a comment somewhere in
> a jawt makefile to state that we rely on this RPATH entry in the
> launcher. This way we can ensure that even if the jawt library is moved
> around, the relevant RPATH entry gets updated accordingly as well.

Thanks for you suggestions!

I am going to post a patch based on your suggestions to build-dev.

Thanks,
Omair




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