On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:19:13PM NZDT, Andrew Errington wrote: > Hello, > > I have built an MP3 player box at home. Well, I built one ages ago but the > hard drive expired, so I made it network boot instead. > [snip] > > I had it all going without Lirc in less than 4Mb, but adding Lirc involves > compiling more stuff into IRMP3, so it's too tight. I am using busybox to > keep things small, and I have a very minimal set of files to boot the > machine with. The kernel is 2.4.18 from Debian 3.0 distribution.
Have you considered linking against diet-libc or uClibc? I think busybox already uses a light libc, but your extra tools might not. Good luck. It would be nice to see the steps you've taken. Are you planning to publish the results when you're done? Greg --- -
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