Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Hello Dave,
* Dave Korn wrote on Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:09:05PM CEST:
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1) Would this be a reasonable approach, specifically i) in adding a configure
option to cause sublibraries to be built, and ii) in using gmake's $(filter)
construct to crudely subdivide the libraries like this?
You are aware of the fact that it is part of the ABI in which of the
linked DLLs a given symbol was found, and any shuffling of that later
will break that ABI?
You also have to ensure that the sub libraries are self-contained, or at
least their interdependencies form a directed non-cyclic graph (or you
will need very ugly hacks on w32).
Unfortunately it may not be a simple task to find a suitably large set
of packages that satisfy this 'directed non-cyclic graph' criterion.
I might suggest looking at grouping a bunch of various protocol handlers
together that are all accessed via mechanisms like the URLConnection,
and the various crypto implementations.
David Daney
