[fedora-java] aot-compile-rpm

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com> writes:

Gary>  IT WORKS AROUND THE PPC GO2 LIMIT
Gary>  =================================
Gary>   PPC machines are limited on the size of jarfiles that can be
Gary>   compiled in one go, affecting Eclipse and JacORB, as described
Gary>   at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=158308.
Gary>   aot-compile-rpm splits large jarfiles on ppc to avoid this.

Gary>     """In order to avoid #158308 we must split large jarfiles on PPC."""
Gary>     if os.environ.get("RPM_ARCH") != "ppc":
Gary>         return [src.filename]

You may want to do the splitting unconditionally.  Then we won't
generate machine-crushing gigabyte .s files anywhere, and we will be
able to remove property files and other unused bits from the jars on
all platforms.

Tom