[fedora-java] openjdk's rt.jar

David Herron @ Sun David.Herron at Sun.COM
Fri Nov 21 20:16:44 UTC 2008


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




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