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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:25:34 -0500
From: "Ronald Servant" <ronald.servant@gmail.com>
To: dev@harmony.apache.org
Subject: Re: [vmi] thread library
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I see two other alternatives (other than removing thread lib code from
the port lib).
 1. remove any dependency on the port library in the launcher.
 2. parse -vmdir: early in the launcher to augment the path.

I think 2 is achievable and will try and produce a patch for it to sample.

Ron.
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