Changeset 263 for trunk/doc/README.OS2

Timestamp:

Feb 21, 2011, 12:02:20 AM (14 years ago)

Author:

dmik

Message:

make: Global DLL rename by adding the 'j' prefix to avoid possible conflicts with system DLLs (#52)

File:

• trunk/doc/README.OS2 (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/doc/README.OS2

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-OpenJDK 6 Alpha for OS/2 and eCS
-
-Version 1.6.0 Build 19 Beta 2 (2011-01-12)
-
-This is a beta build intended for testing purposes.
+OpenJDK 6 for OS/2 and eCS
+
+Version 1.6.0 Build 19 RC (2011-xx-yy)
+
+This is a release candidate build intended for testing purposes.
 
 
@@ -206 +206 @@
 
 
+DLL NAMES
+
+  In the environment necessary to run OpenJDK on OS/2, the directory containing
+  JDK DLLs is listed in either LIBPATH or BEGINLIBPATH variable which makes
+  these DLLs available to Java processes as well as to any other process running
+  in the same environment. The original versions of OpenJDK use very generic DLL
+  names for some components (such as jpeg.dll, zip.dll) which may create name
+  conflicts with system DLLs and cause the Java DLLs to be loaded by programs
+  instead of the system ones leading to program malfunction.
+
+  To reduce the possibility of such conflicts, all Java DLLs that didn't have
+  a 'j' prefix in their names were renamed by prepending 'j' to the original
+  DLL name.
+
+  Besides adding the 'j' prefix, some DLLs were also renamed further to fit the
+  8 character length limit forced by the OS/2 kernel loader.
+
+
+  On OS/2, the directory containing JDK DLLs
+  In order to avoid conflicts...
+  the following dlls were renamed...
+
+  hprof.dll -> jhprof.dll in -agentlib: cmd line option
+  debug dlls as well
+
+
+
 CURRENT LIMITATIONS