From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 30 14:14:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4518337B404 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:14:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from anchor-post-39.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-39.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0B4643E75 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:14:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from mailgate.nlsystems.com ([62.49.251.130] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-39.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 18716r-000177-0U; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:14:45 +0000 Received: from herring (herring [10.0.0.2]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g9UMEij0023599; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:14:44 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:14:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Peter Wemm Cc: Terry Lambert , Nate Lawson , Subject: Re: libc size In-Reply-To: <20021030214158.CB6EA2A88D@canning.wemm.org> Message-ID: <20021030221417.J22480-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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