Re: glibc size and linux on a disk

[Mike Castle]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 07:06:28PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> There's no option for a smaller glibc.  But search for sglibc, HJ is
> working on something like that.

There is also the mklibs.{sh,py} stuff from the debian distribution.  See
the boot-floppies archives on the debian site for discussion on it.

Basically those tools work by iterating over the apps needed, figuring out
the minimal set of functions needed, and generating a new .so file from the
original PIC archive built during glibc construction.  So you have to have
some of the intermediate files left over from building glibc that are not
normally installed to use this method.

I really with there was a way of taking an arbitrary .so file and doing
the same thing, making use of relocation information and the like.  But
there doesn't appear to be.

Also, in addition to sglibc (which is the first I've heard of that one),
there is ulibc and dietlibc.

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