From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30148 invoked by alias); 7 Jul 2011 16:58:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 30130 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Jul 2011 16:58:21 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_IB X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de (HELO einhorn.in-berlin.de) (192.109.42.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:58:07 +0000 X-Envelope-From: doko@ubuntu.com Received: from [192.168.42.17] (dslb-088-073-111-027.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.73.111.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id p67GvJN5019059; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 18:57:19 +0200 Message-ID: <4E15E56E.4070209@ubuntu.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:58:00 -0000 From: Matthias Klose User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110516 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Daney CC: GCJ-patches , GCC Patches , Andrew Haley , David Daney Subject: Re: [patch] Disable static build for libjava References: <4E15DE84.5030809@ubuntu.com> <4E15E3F6.3050502@cavium.com> In-Reply-To: <4E15E3F6.3050502@cavium.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact java-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: java-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-q3/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 On 07/07/2011 06:51 PM, David Daney wrote: > On 07/07/2011 09:27 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: >> As discussed at the Google GCC gathering, disable the build of static libraries >> in libjava, which should cut the build time of libjava by 50%. The static >> libjava build isn't useful out of the box, and I don't see it packaged by Linux >> distributions either. >> >> The AC_PROG_LIBTOOL check is needed to get access to the enable_shared macro. >> I'm unsure about the check in the switch construct. Taken from libtool.m4, and >> determining the value of enable_shared_with_static_runtimes. >> >> Ok for the trunk? >> >> 2011-07-07 Matthias Klose >> >> * Makefile.def (target_modules/libjava): Pass >> $(libjava_disable_static). >> * configure.ac: Check for libtool, pass --disable-static >> in libjava_disable_static. >> * Makefile.in: Regenerate. >> * configure: Likewise. >> > > My autoconf fu is not what it used to be. It is fine if static libraries are > disabled by default, but it should be possible to enable them from the configure > command line. It is unclear to me if this patch does that. no. I assume an extra option --enable-static-libjava would be needed. > Also I would like to go on record as disagreeing with the statement that 'static > libjava build isn't useful out of the box' I remember that there were some restrictions with the static library. but maybe I'm wrong. Matthias