Re: [cp-patches] make libjawt binary-compatible with Sun's implementation

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "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