[Xapian-tickets] [Xapian] #774: libxapian_jni.jnilib installed to preposterous location

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#774: libxapian_jni.jnilib installed to preposterous location
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 Reporter:  ryandesign              |             Owner:
     Type:  defect                  |            Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                  |         Milestone:
Component:  Xapian-bindings (Java)  |           Version:  1.4.9
 Severity:  normal                  |        Resolution:
 Keywords:                          |        Blocked By:
 Blocking:                          |  Operating System:  All
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Comment (by olly):

 (BTW, there should also be a `.jar` installed - not sure if you quoted all
 the output there or just the start of it...)

 > Unfortunately I'm not familiar with Java. I don't know how a Java user
 would use this jnilib file or where it should actually be installed to.

 That's essentially the problem here - we don't know where to install the
 Java bindings in a usefully portable way, nor how to query the appropriate
 paths from Java, so for now we install to that `built` subdirectory and
 document that the user should copy the two files to the appropriate
 place(s).

 E.g. for a Debian package I know we should install
 `/usr/lib/jni/libxapian_jni.so` and `/usr/share/java/xapian.jar` but I
 doubt that `$(libdir)/jni/` and `$(datarootdir)/java/` are correct on a
 Mac - it's probably somewhere under `/Library/Java`.

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