[JAVA,libtool] Big libjava is biiiig.

Wed May 6 16:31:00 GMT 2009

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:26 PM, David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
> 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.

Is it not that maybe most of the exported symbols are not necessary and can
be made hidden?
Richard.