Compiling multiple --resource files

Sat Nov 8 14:00:00 GMT 2003

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> > If so, then we've got a bug somewhere.
>> I find it surprising that classpathx expects stuff in the META-INF
> directory to be in the classpath.

I haven't followed this PR closely, but it sounds similar to a xerces
failure I discovered here. gcj intentionally skips META-INF entries:
 /* For now we drop the manifest and other information. Maybe it
 would make more sense to compile it in? */
 if (zdir->filename_length > 8
 && !strncmp (class_name_in_zip_dir, "META-INF/", 9))
 return 0;
My feeling is that this is a mistake. XML parsers depend on resources in
META-INF. Probably the manifest should be skipped, but not other entries
in META-INF.
Jeff