Improved build system

Jonathan Gibbons jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com
Fri Sep 30 11:22:19 PDT 2011


On 09/29/2011 05:33 PM, Fredrik Öhrström wrote:
> To support these features, javac had to be improved. I added the options:
> -XDserver..     spawns a background javac server, or reuses the existing one
> -XDdeps..       generate a file with package dependencies (like -MF in gcc)
> -XDpubapi...    generate a file with the public api of the package
> -XDnativeapi..  generate a file with the native api of the package
>

Fredrik,

How well will this extend, in time, to support more fine-grained 
dependencies,
at (say) the top-level-class level?

-- Jon



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