making static linkage useful (oh the horror!)

Fri Jan 17 01:43:00 GMT 2003

>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Megacz <gcj@lists.megacz.com> writes:

Adam> I understand that the gcj folks would like to see
Adam> libgcj.so/libgcj.dll spread as far and wide as possible as part
Adam> of your nefarious plot for world domination. Making static
Adam> linkage hard to use or bloated does force people to distribute
Adam> these libraries.
My history with this feature has been that it has been a pain. And,
since my own interest is fairly Linux- (and to a lesser extent Unix-)
centric, I find I'm more interested in solving problems where libgcj
is a shared library distributed as part of the OS.
Still, we've previously made changes in libgcj to help static linking
(I may even have done so; I forget). I'm sure we can agree on some
solution to whatever problems remain. I'm not that worried about it.
Reading up on otables and answering your questions is on my to-do
list; this feature is important. I can't say when I can get to it
though, as I'm rather busy at the moment with 3.3 stuff and work.
Tom