[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 ryandesign):

 Replying to [comment:1 olly]:
 > (BTW, there should also be a `.jar` installed - not sure if you quoted
 all the output there or just the start of it...)

 Hmm, no, what I showed above is the entirety of what was installed. There
 is a built/xapian.jar file that gets built by `make`, but it doesn't get
 installed anywhere by `make install`.

 > > 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`.

 Ah I see now that you do mention this in your java/index.html file:

 > on Mac OS X you can copy [the JNI library] into
 !/Library/Java/Extensions/

 I can certainly try putting the jnilib file there. Is that also the
 correct place to put the jar file or does that go somewhere else? I'll see
 if I can get your examples to work with that.

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