From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 26 23:14:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA24094 for current-outgoing; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 23:14:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magigimmix.xs4all.nl (magigimmix.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.25]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA24048 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 23:14:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asterix.xs4all.nl (asterix.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.11]) by magigimmix.xs4all.nl (8.7.5/XS4ALL) with ESMTP id IAA16919 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 08:14:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from plm.xs4all.nl (uucp@localhost) by asterix.xs4all.nl (8.7.5/8.7.2) with UUCP id IAA14033 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 08:02:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from plm@localhost) by plm.xs4all.nl (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA00348; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 19:21:28 +0200 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BLOAT in minimal programs References: <87ohitp543.fsf@totally-fudged-out-message-id> From: Peter Mutsaers Date: 26 Sep 1996 19:21:27 +0200 In-Reply-To: David Greenman's message of Wed, 25 Sep 1996 23:20:50 -0700 Message-ID: <87ranpkx9k.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.39/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 23:20:50 -0700, David Greenman >> said: DG> ... >> THIS IS NOT MINIMAL! >> I DID NOT WANT ALL THIS CRAP! >> why oh why did I get malloc? Then just link everything dynamically, also /sbin and /bin, except for a few crucial programs. That is what I do. I've never understood why the default is to link so much static. The shared libraries behave very stable so it brings no risk to do it. In case of a problem you can recover from the boot floppy. -- Peter Mutsaers | Abcoude (Utrecht), | Trust is a good quality plm@xs4all.nl | the Netherlands | for other people to have