RFR: JDK-8319516 AIX System::loadLibrary needs support to load a shared library from an archive object [v13]

[Suchismith Roy]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 18:14:36 GMT, Suchismith Roy <sroy at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Allow support for both .a and .so files in AIX.
>> If .so file is not found, allow fallback to .a extension.
>> JBS Issue: [JDK-8319516](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8319516)
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> Suchismith Roy has updated the pull request incrementally with three additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - update tests
>  - update tests
>  - update tests

Ok. How can i get the path of an existing .so file and renamed it to .a ? 
Example we have libawt.so. In order to rename it i need to find its path. How can i do that using Java code ? 
Do i need to parse the java library path and search in it ?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17945#issuecomment-2043232272