From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22911 invoked by alias); 6 May 2009 16:27:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 22629 invoked by uid 22791); 6 May 2009 16:26:59 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail3.caviumnetworks.com (HELO mail3.caviumnetworks.com) (12.108.191.235) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 06 May 2009 16:26:54 +0000 Received: from exch4.caveonetworks.com (Not Verified[192.168.16.23]) by mail3.caviumnetworks.com with MailMarshal (v6,2,2,3503) id ; Wed, 06 May 2009 12:26:12 -0400 Received: from exch4.caveonetworks.com ([192.168.16.23]) by exch4.caveonetworks.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 6 May 2009 09:26:02 -0700 Received: from dd1.caveonetworks.com ([64.169.86.201]) by exch4.caveonetworks.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 6 May 2009 09:26:02 -0700 Message-ID: <4A01BA1A.9030801@caviumnetworks.com> Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 16:27:00 -0000 From: David Daney User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Wildenhues , Dave Korn , java@gcc.gnu.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: [JAVA,libtool] Big libjava is biiiig. References: <4A01B55C.6060700@gmail.com> <4A01B621.7020609@gmail.com> <20090506161419.GA19953@ins.uni-bonn.de> In-Reply-To: <20090506161419.GA19953@ins.uni-bonn.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact java-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: java-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2009-05/txt/msg00005.txt.bz2 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