Re: [gentoo-java] Adding native library path to system VM

["Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>]

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Ted Kosan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently emerged the dev-java/rxtx package and it installs native libraries
> into /opt/rxtx-2/lib/
> 
> My question is, how is this path added to the system's VM so that the native
> libraries in it can be found?
> 
> I used java-config to add the package's jar to the system's classpath (
> CLASSPATH=/usr/share/rxtx-2/lib/RXTXcomm.jar ) but I did not see any
> java-config options that could be used to add native libraries to the system
> VM.
> 
> I am currently using sun-jdk-1.5.0.05.
> 
> Thanks in advance :-)
> 
> Ted Kosan
> java.net Embedded Java community co-leader
> tkosan@dev.java.net

java-config --library rxtx2

aria betelgeuse # java-config -i rxtx-2
/opt/rxtx-2/lib

It is the job of the applications using rxtx to call this in their
startup scripts. You should not set a system wide classpath, that is
deprecated and not supported by the java team.

Regards,
Petteri Räty


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