jextract symbolic link handling

[Andre Blanke]

Where would the correct place to file a bug report be in this case, as
bugs.openjdk.java.net requires author status?

Thanks,
Andre

On 22/11/2019 6:50 am, sundararajan.athijegannathan at oracle.com wrote:

> 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