java library installation issues

Wed Apr 4 16:44:00 GMT 2001

>> The `L.so' in this case should probably follow the naming scheme we
>> adopted for the `.so' files that Class.forName will automatically try
>> to load. That will make it so that the linker and Class.forName will
>> agree -- it won't matter to the end program whether a class is loaded
>> at runtime or at link time.

Per> Do you have a write-up of this?
Nothing formal :-(.
Here is the comment in natClassLoader.cc:
 // Turn `gnu.pkg.quux' into `gnu-pkg-quux'. Then search for a
 // module named (eg, on Linux) `gnu-pkg-quux.so', followed by
 // `gnu-pkg.so' and `gnu.so'. If loading one of these causes
 // the class to appear in the cache, then use it.
Tom