[fedora-java] openjdk's rt.jar

[Andrew John Hughes]

David Herron @ Sun wrote:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54M 2008-09-08 13:39
>>>> ./java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/lib/rt.jar
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24M 2008-10-21 15:40
>>>> ./java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.10/jre/lib/rt.jar
>>>>
>>>> Why so much bigger?
>>>
>>> I'd open them up and diff the trees.
>>>
>>> Andrew.
>>
>> Interesting.  Assuming they both have similar contents, it could be 
>> that  the IcedTea builds enable debug info.
>> -- 
>> Andrew :)
> 
> We also appear to be using pack200 for packaging the .jar's and IIRC 
> that strips out a bunch of stuff.
> 
> Assuming that 1.6.0.10 rt.jar above came from a DLJ bundle, I just 
> looked at the DLJ bundle and it's doing unpack200 ... and there are 
> files whose name ends with '.pack' inside.
> 
> - David
> 
But isn't this the same 'we' i.e. why isn't the OpenJDK build doing this?
--
Andrew :)