Re: [JAVA,libtool] Big libjava is biiiig.

[Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com>]

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.