[fedora-java] db merging script

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Tue Mar 22 20:11:10 UTC 2005


Jakub Jelinek writes:
 > 
 > Certainly, one master .db file, although it will need some work inside
 > gcj-dbtool and libgcj.so, will make things far easier for the users and
 > developers.

That's impossible.  

The .db is a mapping from bytecode to shared objects, and there is no
guarantee that if a class exists in lib/foo.so it will also exist in
lib64/foo.so.  However, that class might well exist in lib64/bar.so.

Andrew.




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