On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 18:31, C. Brewer wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 October 2003 8:02, Vano D wrote:
>
> > The whole thing (with gpm, ncurses, links) is now 22 megs(if you dont
> > include gpm, nvurses and links its 3 megs less.. 19 megs for a base
> > system). Big for embedded but take in account that I only have made a
> > small change in the gentoo scripts. Apart from that change (change
> > agetty->getty in inittab) the rest is as it comes with baselayout.
>
> Just out of curiousity, are these uncompressed binaries? Or have you employed
> gzexe to lighten the size?
No compression. The only thing I did to them after creating the whole
thing was rm -Rf /usr/share/{doc,man,info,zoneinfo,terminfo} (if I
remember correctly).
But anyhow.. I am positive it can be made even smaller, by using less
binaries, cutting down on the baselayout or using a custom one
(slackware rc scripts come to mind) the reason for this is not that the
scripts take a lot of space, but they use some binaries and in my case
instead of I copy the binaries themselves I emerge the whole package the
binaries belong to. And course last but not least, using uglibc should
shrink the thing even more (but then incompatibility issues might arise
with some packages...)
Cheers,
Vano.
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