RFR: 7134690: remove legacy jnilib support from ClassLoader and System [macosx]
Alan Bateman
Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Fri Jan 27 12:12:08 UTC 2012
On 27/01/2012 11:41, Michael McMahon wrote:
> Can I get the following change reviewed please? The change is to remove
> some mac specific code from:
>
> src/share/classes/java/lang/System.java and
> src/share/classes/java/lang/ClassLoader.java
>
> which added support for non-standard native library suffixes on Mac OS
> (ie. .jnilib as well as the standard .dylib).
>
> We would like to remove this code, so there will be no changes to
> those sources
> when the Mac changes get pushed to jdk7u-dev
>
> I have submitted a hotspot CR to track providing the same functionality
> in Mac specific code in hotspot. Though we can probably live without
> it in the short-term.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~michaelm/7134690/webrev.1/
This looks fine to me as this wasn't the right place to support this. I
don't know how common .jnilib was to know if the VM changes will be
required in the short term.
-Alan
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