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Re: compile glibc without most features

To: szi at aibon dot ping dot de
Subject: Re: compile glibc without most features
From: Wolfram Gloger <Wolfram dot Gloger at dent dot med dot uni-muenchen dot de>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 09:40:32 +0200 (MDT)
CC: libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <7upurbwwwi.fsf@olivia.aibon.ping.de> <200004272107.OAA23965@localhost.cygnus.com> <7u66t2viib.fsf@olivia.aibon.ping.de>

Hello,

> So I think glibc is the only lib, that can be used for a Linux boot
> disk.  But the single so file is bigger than 2 MB.

What??

% size /lib/libc-2.1.3.so 
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 887615   13240   15132  915987   dfa13 /lib/libc-2.1.3.so

> Each static link
> produces binaries which are about 200 - 400 KB.

Yes, static linking is _not_ what you want.

> So you see: It is a *pain* to get glibc on a floppy.

Debian, for example, has done it quite easily.  In a gzip-compressed
boot image, glibc-2.1.3.so (the standard build) doesn't take more than
370k or so.

Regards,
Wolfram.

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