[PATCH] Update RPATH to make loading libjawt possible

[Omair Majid]

On 08/14/2012 07:13 AM, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
> 
>> I see your point. As I told you we'll be open-sourcing a JAWT-specific
>> test under 7190587. This test already provides support for Linux,
>> Solaris, and Windows platforms, and even does a little more than just
>> loads the jawt library.

Awesome. A test like that will be great to have! I have no issues with
leaving my jawt test out if we are going to add better tests soon.

>> So it looks there's still some value in Kumar's test as well. Yes, it
>> will need to be rewritten should we replace the RPATH mechanism with
>> something else in the future. It's up to Kumar to decide whether he
>> wants such test to be present in the repo. Personally, I don't mind.
> 
> I think we need a test in the launcher area, as a first line of defense,
> so as to ensure
> we don't have a regression, when Program.gmk is modified, noting that
> test/tools/launcher is part of the testset core.
> 
> As for Omair's jawt test I too don't see much value if we already have a
> duplicate elsewhere
> which will be moved to opensource.

As long as this corner case is accounted for, I agree.

> 
> So I am ok with the Omair's changes - (jawt test) + (launchers test).    :)

Updated webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~omajid/webrevs/jawt-link-regression/02/

Shall I go ahead and commit?

Thanks,
Omair