Re: GNU Jaxp patch

[Dalibor Topic <robilad at kaffe dot org>]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> > > > > > "David" == David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com> writes:
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> David> Currently I am using a hacked up libgcj.so that has all of AWT and RMI
> David> and most javax removed from it.  Now I may be removing XML things as
> David> well.
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> David> Having said all that, I am not sure what the best solution is.
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> David> Is it possible to either:
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> David> Break libgcj into several shared objects that are loaded on demand by
> David> some dynamic library trickery.
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> David> Add more build time switches to turn off things like ATW, RMI, XML, etc.
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> Yeah, good questions.

> Any other thoughts?

what we do in kaffe is to let people build the class library using their 
 own 'profiles' if they want to (and embedded developers seem to be 
fond of it). A kaffe profile is simply a list of java source code files 
to be compiled into the final rt.jar, that's being fed to the java 
compiler using the @file-list option. [1]

That solves the problem for the class files, afaict.

cheers,
dalibor topic

[1] It was a side effect of my work to fix the kaffe build on irix, 
where the shell fell over itself when we started merging in large chunks 
of classpath and tried to compile them all at once on the command line. 
So we had to use the @file-list trick, and then it was kind of natural 
to put it to some good use, too.