libtool linking libgcj

Thu Oct 9 15:05:00 GMT 2003

Nicholas Wourms writes:
 > 
 > But to return to the kde example... They have also come up with another 
 > interesting way to reduce the number of object files at link time: they 
 > combine all the source files in a subdir into a single source file 
 > using "#include <source.cc>" directives and building it as a single 
 > object. This may not be good for debugging or even work at all for 
 > libjava, but if it could work, it would definitely cut down on the 
 > number of object files libtool needs to process, which in turn, would 
 > cut down on the length of time required to do the final link.
We can do this with libjava. gcj can do
 gcj foo.java bar.java baz.java -o foo.o
We could do this with all of gcj, but the memory requirements of the
compiler are fearsome.
Andrew.