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Re: [cp-patches] make libjawt binary-compatible with Sun's implementatio
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Tom Tromey |
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Re: [cp-patches] make libjawt binary-compatible with Sun's implementation |
Date: |
20 Aug 2005 18:16:38 -0600 |
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>>>>> "Tom" == Thomas Fitzsimmons <address@hidden> writes:
Tom> One issue remains for our libjawtgnu.so to be a drop-in replacement for
Tom> Sun's libjawt.so. We must somehow set libjawtgnu.so's SONAME ELF field
Tom> to "libjawt.so". Libtool does not currently support overriding SONAME,
Tom> but a patch is being reviewed by libtool's maintainers:
Could we name our library "libjawt.so" and just install it someplace
"weird" so that a --prefix=/usr build won't stick it in /usr/lib
(i.e., so that alternatives can still work)?
Tom