Need reviewer: Exceptions to mapfile rule on shared libraries

Tue Apr 12 22:58:34 UTC 2011

On 13:46 Tue 12 Apr     , Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> 
> Some shared libraries do not have and will not have mapfiles, at least for now, we
> give these an exception to the mapfile check (which just issues a warning).
> 
> 7033957: Library built without a mapfile: libxinerama.so
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohair/openjdk7/jdk7-build-mapfile-warning-sparc/webrev/
> 
> -kto
> 

On a related note, is it wise to have these libraries using the same names as system
libraries?  libxinerama is the same as libXinerama with the exception of case.  I
believe the JDK also has a libjpeg which is identically named to the system install.
Could it not be libjxinerama.so, libjavajpeg.so or some such?
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Andrew :)

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