From owner-freebsd-small Thu Apr 20 9: 5:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from lepton.subatomix.com (okc-224-168.mmcable.com [24.94.224.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C221F37B607 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 09:05:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jss@lepton.subatomix.com) Received: from localhost (jss@localhost) by lepton.subatomix.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA26797; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:08:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jss@lepton.subatomix.com) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:08:33 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [HEADS-UP] reviewers needed for repairs to PicoBSD - In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Apr 2000 papowell@astart.com wrote: > > > > > > ... 'make supported build' ... > > > > > > Looks like the answer is no for now. > > > > I'm also working on a make-based build system. ... > > Hmmm... Do you have some patented method for stripping unused parts of > shared libs? Otherwise the dynamic version in total occupies much more > space than crunched binary. I remember a couple of suggestions in the past > (should be in the archive) I didn't think of that. Good idea. I'll check that archive. . > Do you have some idea how to modularize picobsd better, so that some > modules (i.e. programs, libs) can be added/removed without recompiling > everything? Hopefully, that will be one result of using a make-based build. > Do you plan to use kernel modules to give flexibility of adding/removing > drivers as needed? The design is flexible enough that the use of kernel modules is just a configuration issue. No special support will be necessary in the build system. > The feature list sounds very nice. Keep up the good work! Thanks! =============================== Jeffrey S. Sharp (XorAxAx) jss@subatomix.com -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.12 GCS/IT/MU d-@ s-:+ a21 C++(++++) UBL+(+++$)> P L+(+++$)> E+> W++ N+(++) o? K? w++$> !O M(-) !V PS+ PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+ R(+) tv+ b+ DI++(+++) G++ e> h--- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message