Subject: Re: size of glibc on alph rootdisk
From: Falk Hueffner (falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de)
Date: Sun Jan 07 2001 - 06:35:35 PST
Chris Lumens <chris@slackware.com> writes:
> Hi there. I've been working on a Slackware port to the Alpha for
> some time and have been having issues getting my rootdisks down to
> size. I went looking at the sizes of things on the Debian rootdisk
> and noticed that your libc.so is only about 600k. Since this is
> fully half the size of my libc.so, I would love to know how you
> managed to do that.
>
> Would it be possible for me to take a look at your build scripts,
> patches, etc for making the glibc version that's on your rootdisk?
> It would be very helpful, and much appreciated.
The scripts for creating the boot disks are available via CVS from
:pserver:anonymous@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/debian-boot, empty password.
You might be interested in scripts/rootdisk/mklibs.sh, which is a very
clever script for removing unneeded functions from libraries. It is
currently disabled for each architecture except powerpc, though, so
there seem to be some problems with Alpha...
Falk
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