Why long command line for libgcj.so?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun  6, 2002, Bryce McKinlay <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> wrote:

> This way we will end up linking a few
> dozen large .o files rather than a few thousand little ones, reducing
> the command line length and presumably being easier for the linker to
> process.

There's an easy way to verify this theory: link libtool object files
into intermediate per-package reloadable object files (libtool -r).
But as I wrote before, I'll be very surprised if it makes any
difference in total linker memory usage.

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