Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:14:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: libc size Message-ID: <20021030221417.J22480-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20021030214158.CB6EA2A88D@canning.wemm.org>
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On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Peter Wemm wrote: > 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. Yes please. Our root filesystem space requirements are too high, IMHO. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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