hotspot/src/share/tools/hsdis/README
changeset 10017 34ddce3361b7
parent 5547 f4b087cbb361
child 10273 463696c60eed
--- a/hotspot/src/share/tools/hsdis/README	Wed Jul 06 09:27:54 2011 -0700
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/tools/hsdis/README	Wed Jul 06 18:15:21 2011 -0700
@@ -75,8 +75,16 @@
 * Installing
 
 Products are named like build/$OS-$LIBARCH/hsdis-$LIBARCH.so.  You can
-install them on your LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or inside of your JRE next to
-$LIBARCH/libjvm.so.
+install them on your LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or inside of your JRE/JDK.  The
+search path in the JVM is:
+
+1. <home>/jre/lib/<arch>/<vm>/libhsdis-<arch>.so
+2. <home>/jre/lib/<arch>/<vm>/hsdis-<arch>.so
+3. <home>/jre/lib/<arch>/hsdis-<arch>.so
+4. hsdis-<arch>.so  (using LD_LIBRARY_PATH)
+
+Note that there's a bug in hotspot versions prior to hs22 that causes
+steps 2 and 3 to fail when used with JDK7.
 
 Now test: