Re: Compiling XML parsers (xerces, Dom4j, etc...)

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Bryce McKinlay writes:
 > 
 > It is, however, true that a shared library, using GCJ's naming
 > conventions for runtime lookup of classes in shared libraries, must
 > be named as a superset/intersection of all the packages contained
 > in the jar it was made from.

Using the lib-foo-bar-baz.so scheme, yes.

 > This is why I think a new scheme for runtime location/loading of
 > the shared libraries is needed.

Sure: all we need is to add the foo.jar --> foo.so mapping to the
database.  I'm working on it.

Andrew.