Re: [java-gnome-hackers] Libraries vs Packaging (1): Linkage

[Serkan K. <se...@ge...>]

2011/5/5 Andrew Cowie <an...@op...>:
> On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 07:38 +0300, Serkan Kaba wrote:
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>> Did you consider building single jar/so with the features requested in
>> configure stage. That might be an option instead of cluttering
>> commandline/filesystem with multiple libraries.
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> It would be "easier", but it creates some problems of it's own:
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> I remember Cairo on Gentoo Linux; sure it was just "cairo" but we needed
> "cairo with PDF support built in" and there was no for a developer to
> tell whether their Cairo had it or not.
with proper USE deps we now can depend on cairo with pdf support
(actually now pdf support is hardcoded in the ebuild)
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> I'm still looking for someone to definitively assert either that a)
> dlopen()ing multiple libraries is more expensive that having one library
> that links in huge libraries that aren't being used or b) the opposite.
> That might give us some guidance.
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>> Sincerely,
>> Serkan KABA
>> Gentoo Developer
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If we choose to have multiple libs we may have something similar to
2.x and split packages in distros.