Re: [gui][PATCH] include extra libraries in libgcj.spec.in

[Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>]

Ranjit Mathew wrote:

> > As this is only for "java-gui-branch" I think nobody cares about this.
> >    
>
> Perhaps not for the moment, but stuff from the
> java-gui-branch will be integrated into mainline soon,
> so this *will* become an issue in the near future.
>
> My understanding is that the splitting-libgcj-into-smaller-libs
> thingy is only waiting for the BC-ABI to be integrated
> into mainline.
>  
I don't think we're going to split libgcj into smaller libs, at least 
not at this stage. The library split on gui-branch is just a temporary 
solution to work around the unacceptable incremental rebuild times (ie 
make one small change to libgcj and it takes 2 mins + to relink).

The real solution is going to be to fix our build system so that the 
relinking time is much faster.

> Another thing about this patch is that it also unconditionally
> creates dependencies on the AWT libraries even when AWT
> is enabled in the build but isn't actually being used anywhere.
>  
I think the simplicity of having a single library outweighs the 
dependency issues. However, we may want to revisit this issue later when 
we have the BC-ABI.

Regards

Bryce