Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:41:58 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libc size Message-ID: <20021030214158.CB6EA2A88D@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <3DC04861.3C5E975B@mindspring.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Terry Lambert wrote: > Nate Lawson wrote: > > Here is a link to the size of various components of libc, sorted by text > > size. If you can find some way to reduce or even remove some of this, > > please submit a patch. > > > > http://www.root.org/~nate/freebsd/lib_size.out > > Move the resolver code out to ibresolv.so, and link libc.so > against libresolv.so so that legacy applications are happy, as > long as they are compiled shared. Non-network apps can ignore > most of it. Internal use of some of the biggest chunks is > limited, so this should avoid dragging in a lot of it. We've been over this before. To make this work right, we need to make /bin and /sbin dynamically linked. NetBSD's /rescue/* approach would solve the "oops!" and other foot shooting problems. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20021030214158.CB6EA2A88D>