[JAVA,libtool] Big libjava is biiiig.

Wed May 6 16:27:00 GMT 2009

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Dave,
>> * Dave Korn wrote on Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:09:05PM CEST:
[...]
>> 1) Would this be a reasonable approach, specifically i) in adding a configure
>> option to cause sublibraries to be built, and ii) in using gmake's $(filter)
>> construct to crudely subdivide the libraries like this?
>> You are aware of the fact that it is part of the ABI in which of the
> linked DLLs a given symbol was found, and any shuffling of that later
> will break that ABI?
>> You also have to ensure that the sub libraries are self-contained, or at
> least their interdependencies form a directed non-cyclic graph (or you
> will need very ugly hacks on w32).
>
Unfortunately it may not be a simple task to find a suitably large set 
of packages that satisfy this 'directed non-cyclic graph' criterion.
I might suggest looking at grouping a bunch of various protocol handlers 
together that are all accessed via mechanisms like the URLConnection, 
and the various crypto implementations.
David Daney