Closed Bug 937685 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Build "thin" archives

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox Build System
Component:
General
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: sunfish, Unassigned)

Details

As noticed in bug 569597, GNU ar supports "thin" archives. with the T flag, which are "useful for building libraries for use within a local build, where the relocatable objects are expected to remain available, and copying the contents of each object would only waste time and space", which would be nice for several things in Firefox builds. This will likely require configurey to detect platforms which support this feature. Also it may require the ability to make some libraries thin and some not.
We're already not building archives for internal build use only. We're not using thin archives for that, since it's not cross platform, but using a custom thing. That's what the .a.desc files are.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Core → Firefox Build System
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