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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

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