[JAVA,libtool] Big libjava is biiiig.

[David Daney]

Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com> writes:
> 
> Dave> There are a couple of regressions to solve first, but it appears
> Dave> that I've more-or-less cracked it.  Full details are written up
> Dave> here:
> 
> Dave>         http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Internal_dependencies_of_libgcj
> 
> One thing worth considering is that you may be able to shrink things
> even more by splitting up some existing objects.
> 
> I didn't see AWT in the cluster 48 list, which seems weird.
> I would expect it to be in the core due to AWTPermission.
> 
> I'm curious why sun.awt and swing ended up in there.
> 
> I would expect that with minor tweaks you could probably get AWT, the
> peers, and Swing to drop out.  That was true for AWT, at least, last
> time I looked at this (years ago) -- but I needed a special case to keep
> AWTPermission in.

I have patches that do a lot of the things Tom mentions.  They are only 
lightly tested, but they could be a starting point.

I will dig them out and post them this weekend.

David Daney.