RFR: 8352935: Launcher should not add $JDK/../lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH [v3]

Christoph Langer clanger at openjdk.org
Mon Apr 7 12:18:56 UTC 2025


On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 09:22:10 GMT, Joachim Kern <jkern at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> In the JDK launcher, there is a codepath which would set/modify the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This happens unconditionally on AIX and Linux/musl and can also happen on other Linux platforms if an LD_LIBRARY_PATH is pre-set which contains a libjvm.so.
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>> The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to $JVMPATH:$JDK/lib:$JDK/../lib. The last part of this, $JDK/../lib, seems to be a remnant of times when there was a jre subfolder in a JDK deployment. So it should likely be removed.
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> Joachim Kern has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Proposal from RealCLanger to further cleanup test Test7029048

No regressions spotted, even after the test cleanup. LGTM.

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Marked as reviewed by clanger (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24351#pullrequestreview-2746610204


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