Re: java dependency substvars and native compilation
* Arnaud Vandyck:
> 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.
It also happens for JARs which are on the classpath, AFAICT.
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