Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 12:17:37 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sleep sleep.c Message-ID: <200211152017.gAFKHbFS044142@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211151103440.46823-100000@root.org> <200211151925.gAFJPsgh037805@apollo.backplane.com> <20021115194347.GG50692@elvis.mu.org>
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:Will the knobs allow one to link /bin and /sbin against full blown
:libc? That would be nice as we can then start using pam and user
:management in / with dynamic modules (finally!).
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:-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
I think that should be a goal. I think something like this:
USE_MINIC=YES Link against the mini-C library.
USE_SHARED_BIN=YES Link against a shared libc or mini-C rather
then linking statically.
All mini-C is is the full blown C library minus some of
the larger chunks of bloat. e.g. no locale, smaller
but less efficient malloc, and a trimmed down printf.
At least that is what it is turning out to be. Even
programs like /bin/rm require DBM and syslog. It can
get nasty real fast.
Basically libminic will override particular source files
in libc to generate the smaller footprint.
If we want to trim down mini-C further, removing things
like DBM, we could, but then we would not be able to use
mini-C for all of bin and sbin.
-Matt
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