Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:44:43 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libc size Message-ID: <3DC060DB.EF58A009@mindspring.com> References: <20021030214158.CB6EA2A88D@canning.wemm.org>
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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. Or add: LDFLAGS+= -lresolv To the Makefiles of the things that need to be statically linked, and access the network code. I'm going to go out on a limb here, though, and guess that without a resolv.conf, most of the resolver library is going to be really useless. 8-) 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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