Catch LinkageError when calling Class/forName #39
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Fixes clojure-emacs/cider#2562. See https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-12.html#jls-12.2 for a far more exhaustive discussion of what is actually going on during class loading/initialisation, and why we might need to guard against these errors when calling
Class/forName
– especially when native libraries are involved.