URL() problem

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Urban" == Urban Widmark <urban@svenskatest.se> writes:

>> Thursday night I was playing libtoolizing libgcj.  I'll check it in
>> when it works.  I don't know when that will be.

Urban> Without understanding exactly what libtool does: (does it do
Urban> more than hide differences between configuring for shared &
Urban> static libs?)

That's basically what it does (which is by no means a simple task).
I believe there is a page describing libtool at www.gnu.org.

Urban> Would it not work to always reference gnu.gcj.protocol.http.*
Urban> (and in the future other protocols) from the native parts of
Urban> the java.net package?  There will of course be cases where you
Urban> don't actually need http but get it included anyway.

That's basically what the -u trick does.
I think we'd prefer to keep it so that statically linked programs are
actually minimal.

Tom