Re: java policy for debian, shared libraries...
Hi
On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 01:56:01PM +0200, Robert Olofsson wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I read http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/java-policy/
> There is one thing that I cant find covered by that policy.
Hmm ok.
> I currently develop jmp (http://www.khelekore.org/jmp/) a java profiler.
> Java profilers are written in C/C++ and compiled to shared libraries,
> libjmp.so for jmp. Many profilers today have a java front end, jmp does
> not (it uses a gtk front end).
What exactly is a java profiler? A java debugging utility?
> jmp is C code only.
> jmp is compiled by gcc.
> jmp has no binary (only libjmp.so is installed).
> libjmp.so should probably go into /usr/lib/ or someplace like that.
According to this it has nothing to do with java.
> jmp needs a jvm to run (java -Xrunjmp my.fine.Program). The jvm loads
> the library with dlopen.
But this of course makes it java-related. Does it work with any jvm or
just some specific? Actually I do not think this has to be covered by the
java policy.
> The java debugger also has a similar interface but I am not aware of any
> debugger that does not use any java classes.
> There probably exists more interfaces that use dynamic loading to do
> strange stuff with the jvm....
>
> Where to this fit in?
In the normal debian policy. We just have to make sure that the
java-policy excludes this possibility. I just checked and I do
not think it does.
Do you think something is needed in the policy?
Regards,
// Ola
> /robo
>
PS. I cc:ed the debian-java@l.d.o list for suggestions.
DS.
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