Re: java dependency substvars and native compilation

["Arnaud Vandyck" <avandyck@gmail.com>]

On 5/11/07, Matthew Johnson <debian@matthew.ath.cx> wrote:
> On Fri May 11 07:19, Michael Koch wrote:
> > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 02:11:27PM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote:
> > > OK, so as an alternative, I have a version which reads the Class-Path:
> > > variable from the jar.
> > Setting the Class-Path attribute in the manifest only makes sense for
> > applications. It doesn't makes sense for libraries. The problem is that
> > the VM only uses the Class-Path attribute when you execute
> It also makes sense for libraries; Java recursively adds the classpath,
> so a library which depended on other libraries would have one so that
> applications don't have to guess what libraries their libraries may use.

This is true if the application is launched with java -jar myapp.jar.

Any way, setting Class-Path property in the MANIFEST file is a very good idea.

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Arnaud Vandyck