jextract symbolic link handling

[sundararajan.athijegannathan at oracle.com]

Please file a bug the scenario you're describing (may be with a test 
script?)

Thanks,

-Sundar

On 21/11/19 10:48 pm, Andre Blanke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it appears jextract is not able to handle -l arguments which are symbolic
> links pointing to the actual library, which is the case for some libraries
> on my system.
>
> Would it be possible to implement support for this?
>
> It should be a fairly simple fix by replacing the Path::toAbsolutePath
> method reference inside of com.sun.tools.jextract.Utils.findLibraryPath
> with a call to Path.toRealPath and adding code for handling a potential
> IOException.
>
> Thanks,
> Andre