RFR: Remove duplicate copies of libclang on Linux

Jorn Vernee jvernee at openjdk.org
Mon May 27 14:18:15 UTC 2024


On Mon, 27 May 2024 14:09:51 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

> On Linux, libclang.so is found in three forms:
> 
> * `libclang.so.13.0.0`, this is the real library
> * `libclang.so.13`, this is a symlink that points to the above library
> * `libclang.so`, this is a symlink that points to the above symlink
> 
> Because of this, and because Gradle lacks ability to distinguish between real filenames and symlinks, we end up (on Linux) with multiple versions of libclang, which significantly impact on the size of the final jextract artifact.
> 
> The solution is to add some special logic on Linux where:
> 
> * only `libclang.so.13.0.0` is copied from LLVM
> * `libclang.so.13.0.0` is later renamed to `libclang.so`
> 
> This PR implement such changes both for gradle and make build (both have been tested locally).

LGTM. Might want to test on mac as well?

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Marked as reviewed by jvernee (Committer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jextract/pull/246#pullrequestreview-2081035349


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