Re: libjinput-jni , outdated informations and wrong lib name !?

[Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>]

Hi Bernd,

Le 31/05/2020 à 22:24, Bernd Schatz a écrit :

> The libjinput-jni contains
> /usr/lib/jni/libjinput.so
> but java is expecting it as jinput-linux64.so (on a x86_64 system).

The code is patched to load the library from /usr/lib/jni/libjinput.so, see:

https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/jinput/-/blob/master/debian/patches/01build.xml.jni

The package could be updated to use a multi-arch path.


> So a manual link is necessary
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Mai 30 19:14 /usr/lib/jni/jinput-linux64.so -> /usr/lib/jni/libjinput.so

Did you encounter an UnsatisfiedLinkError when using the package?


> Also the link to the homepage of all jinput packages
> libjinput-java
> libjinput-java-doc
> libjinput-jni
> libjinput-jni:i386
> is death:
> https://java.net/projects/jinput
> 
> In maven central the latest versions are from June, 2018.
> While the version in debian buster is from 2010, e.g.:
> Package: libjinput-java
> Version: 20100502+dfsg-10
> 
> 
> The only sources i found is here => https://github.com/jinput/jinput/,
> but im not sure if this is really the official page.

Thank you for pointing this out, it looks indeed like the new official
page. I'll update the package.

Emmanuel Bourg