On 07/07/2011 06:51 PM, David Daney wrote: > On 07/07/2011 09:27 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: >> As discussed at the Google GCC gathering, disable the build of static >> libraries >> in libjava, which should cut the build time of libjava by 50%. The static >> libjava build isn't useful out of the box, and I don't see it packaged by >> Linux >> distributions either. >> >> The AC_PROG_LIBTOOL check is needed to get access to the enable_shared macro. >> I'm unsure about the check in the switch construct. Taken from libtool.m4, >> and >> determining the value of enable_shared_with_static_runtimes. >> >> Ok for the trunk? >> >> 2011-07-07 Matthias Klose<d...@ubuntu.com> >> >> * Makefile.def (target_modules/libjava): Pass >> $(libjava_disable_static). >> * configure.ac: Check for libtool, pass --disable-static >> in libjava_disable_static. >> * Makefile.in: Regenerate. >> * configure: Likewise. >> > > My autoconf fu is not what it used to be. It is fine if static libraries are > disabled by default, but it should be possible to enable them from the > configure > command line. It is unclear to me if this patch does that.
no. I assume an extra option --enable-static-libjava would be needed. > Also I would like to go on record as disagreeing with the statement that > 'static > libjava build isn't useful out of the box' I remember that there were some restrictions with the static library. but maybe I'm wrong. Matthias
