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

Thu Nov 4 13:44:00 GMT 2004

Bryce McKinlay writes:
 > Andrew Haley wrote:
 > 
 > >Bryce McKinlay writes:
 > > > 
 > > > >First, gcj can in fact compile jar files into usable libraries (as we
 > > > >all know or have read), but there are limitations which are not clearly
 > > > >advertised or documented (at least not in any obvious way).
 > > > >
 > > > >1) The first limitation is that in order to get working libs from jars
 > > > >you have to work with this assumption. The jar can only contain one
 > > > >package. 
 > >
 > >No.
 > >
 > > > Yes, unfortunately this is a well-known limitation of the existing
 > > > shared-library naming scheme.
 > >
 > >All you have to do is link explicitly against the shared library.
 > >
 > Well, yes, obviously that's the alternative
It is simply untrue to say that the jar can only contain one package.
I don't think that it was obvious to the original poster, or he would
not have posted what he did.
Andrew.