Re: /usr/lib/jni not put in java.library.path, sun java 5 and 6

[Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>]

On 17.11.2010 17:09, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> Le mercredi 17 novembre 2010 à 10:54 -0500, Scott Howard a écrit :
> > tags 382686 patch
> > thanks
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Scott Howard<showard314@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > > I also don't
> > > know if a user setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH on their own overwrites our
> > > java.library.path
> >
> > Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH appends java.library.path, but passing
> > -Djava.library.path to java overwrites java.library.path [1]
> >
> > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Sylvestre Ledru<sylvestre@debian.org>  wrote:
> > > > I agree with you we should do that.
> > > > I had a (too) quick look on this and doing some modifications
> > > > in /etc/java-6-sun/* might fix this bug.
> >
> > sun java doesn't use a .properties file to override the system
> > defaults on start up.  IBM's java does [2], but there is no
> > corresponding feature in sun java that I can find (and others
> > apparently can't find it either[3].)
> >
> >
> >
> > I created a patch (attached) for the debian packaging which replicates
> > what is done with javaws. I have a template in debian/ which is filled
> > in to point to the correct directory, then is installed into
> > /@BASEDIR/jre/bin. The original java binary is moved to java.real and
> > is called by the wrapper after properly setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> OK. Thanks for spending some time on this.
>
> However, I don't see this change going in Squeeze. If you are OK, I will
> upload your modification as soon as Squeeze is out (and also in Ubuntu).
> This will allow us some deeper testing and potential side effects.
>
> How does it sound ?

not good. The license only allows unmodified distribution, plus it only "helps" 
when calling the "java" binary, not when starting the VM in other ways.

  Matthias