Pete Buechler wrote:
> I put together a small Linux at oddas.sourceforge.net that fits in less than
> 4M, ...
You can compress the glibc and similar libraries and most binaries by
doing the
following
objcopy -g <filename> --remove-section=.comments --remove-section=.notes
This command will remove all of the debug info from a lib and all of the
comments
and notes from the code. There are other sections and diffrent objcopy
arguments
that may reduce the size even more. I was surprised as to how much this
can take
off a file's size.
The debian boot disks also use a script called "mklibs.sh" which is
based on this
idea, but takes it a little farther. The mklibs.sh comments say "This
utility
helps to reduce the necessary libraries to only include the symbols
needed to run
a given set of executables." It works quite well.
I decided to go with the first option because my customers wanted a full
glibc,
but both work quite well.
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