Shrinking/stripping libgcj for superfluous "classes"

Mon May 17 09:33:00 GMT 2004

> Martin> In case I don't want to have my embedded application static
> Martin> linked, is there a way to strip the libgcj for "classes" I
> Martin> certainly do not use - e.g. "java.awt.*", "javax.swing.*",
> Martin> etc.?
> Tom> Right now, edit the Makefile and rebuild. Look back through the
> Tom> list archives, this topic has come up a few times recently.
Ok, that's a possibility :o)
I was hoping it might be possible using a tool similar to "strip" that 
worked directly on the libgcj.so-file?!
> Tom> Really it ought to be a FAQ -- anybody want to write a FAQ entry
> Tom> for it?
> Something else that would really help doing this would be some kind of
> dependency tracker, that would help resolving what packages depend on
> others. Because otherwise it's mostly guessing and trial-and-error.
That's right - although stripping off java.awt.* and javax.swing.* could 
be done without worries...
I didn't find anything in the archives about this - but that may be 
because my hosting news-server only has an archive back to march 2004. 
Do you know of an available news-server hosting more than this?
Regards,
 Martin