Re: [Classpathx-xml] Signing gnujaxp.jar (with suggestion)

[Nic Ferrier]

Ken Harris <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello GNU JAXP hackers, 
>  
> I've been using GNU JAXP for a while, and I ran into a slight problem  
> when trying to sign it with jarsigner (I'm trying to set up Java Web  
> Start).  I'm using a gnujaxp-1.0beta1.zip from  
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/classpathx, and the J2SDK 1.3.1 (Mac OS X). 
>  
> The jar itself has entries called meta-inf/ and META-INF/.  I don't know  
> if that's legal or not in the jar/zip world, but jarsigner sees  
> "duplicate entry" and bails.  I think the jar command puts meta-inf/ in  
> by default (for the manifest), and the Makefile adds certain other files  
> to META-INF/ (COPYING, LICENSE, etc.). 
>  
> My first thought was that changing "META-INF" to "meta-inf" (there's 6  
> of them) in Makefile.in would be all that's needed.  It does build with  
> a single meta-inf/, and jarsigner can sign it with no problems.  (That's  
> my suggestion.) 

I have an updated build system that I'm waiting for David to
approve. It should fix this fault.


Nic