RFR: 7134701 [macosx] Support legacy native library names

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Wed Mar 28 02:06:41 UTC 2012


The change to look for the alternate library name looks good to me. I'm 
happy to see this handled in this way.

I can't comment on whether there are any other cases where the alternate 
name should be considered.

David

On 28/03/2012 12:05 AM, Michael McMahon wrote:
> JDK 8 fix for this issue. For readers not familiar with Mac OS, this is to
> fix an issue which Apple's JDK 6 supports, but we broke in the jdk 7
> initial port.
> The preferred native library file suffix is .dylib on Mac, but some
> legacy libraries
> use the suffix .jnilib. Currently openjdk on mac does not recognise the
> .jnilib suffix.
>
> This change is to restore that behavior
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~michaelm/7134701/webrev.1/
>
> If this change is accepted, we will look for approval to make the same
> change in 7u4.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael.



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