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. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
