In the last episode (Sep 25), H. William Welliver III said:
>> libjvm.so is designed to be dlopened at runtime (found on
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH). Any application, that tries to link that library,
>> is buggy. Please never ever link it directly.
>
> That statement is a little odd... Isn't LD_LIBRARY_PATH at least
> partially designed for the purpose of finding libraries that have
> been dynamically linked?
>
> Perhaps it shouldn't be called libjvm.so if it's not meant to be
> linked as a library...
Both linking and dlopen'ing are valid, but a distribution with mutiple
possible jvms might prefer to dlopen. Section 7.2 of the JNI
Programmer's Guide has some examples:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jni/html/invoke.html
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Dan Nelson
dnelson-Yi8FgHzFX0yZox4op4iWzw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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