Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 12:06:43 -0400 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: d@delphij.net Cc: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal: remove /usr/bin/minigzip Message-ID: <CAPyFy2CX77i7f83gwMz9AYzt3Uidu1hHoaPXMLWXp=TGFqtv8w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <c257b8eb-6631-e3d1-79ef-8612a1edb91a@delphij.net> References: <0d8e1b38-bcd2-0875-1864-3385c502646d@delphij.net> <b946c9ab-7586-12ca-61cd-e2e7799c3626@grosbein.net> <c257b8eb-6631-e3d1-79ef-8612a1edb91a@delphij.net>
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2022 at 03:52, Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net> wrote:
> But for applications that really want to have smaller footprint, bzip2
> might be a better alternative -- the binary is bigger than minigzip, but
> library was smaller than zlib so the total size is actually a little bit
> smaller: ...
For applications where tens of kilobytes is a real concern, something
like Rob Landley's "toybox" is probably a better bet.
I configured it to include only gzip and get:
$ ls -l toybox
-r-xr-xr-x 1 emaste emaste 36880 Jul 29 11:59 toybox
$ ./toybox
gzip
$
$ ldd ./toybox
./toybox:
libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x822a42000)
so it's about 25K larger than minigzip, but doesn't depend on libz and
could result in a rather smaller image.
Toybox is at https://landley.net/toybox/
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