Re: Library reduction on Alpha (was: Re: Alpha: aboot rescue disk)

2001-08-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 06:01:27PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > the scripts first (I'll check them out of CVS probably tomorrow) to make > > sure they don't already try that :-) > > > > > mklibs.py on the other hand includes each symbol only once. Theres a > > > small hack to prefer libc sy

Re: Library reduction on Alpha (was: Re: Alpha: aboot rescue disk)

2001-08-08 Thread Goswin Brederlow
"Christopher C. Chimelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8 Aug 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > > A short add on to mklibs.sh. > > > > As I see it it looks for symbols that are in two files, i.e. ash and > > libm, and includes all matches. It thinks that all symbols that match > > names will

Re: Library reduction on Alpha (was: Re: Alpha: aboot rescue disk)

2001-08-07 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On 8 Aug 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > A short add on to mklibs.sh. > > As I see it it looks for symbols that are in two files, i.e. ash and > libm, and includes all matches. It thinks that all symbols that match > names will be needed in the library. > > Unfortunatly that will keep any and

Re: Library reduction on Alpha (was: Re: Alpha: aboot rescue disk)

2001-08-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Falk Hueffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Christopher C. Chimelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 7 Aug 2001, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > > > > Yes, it acually doesn't seem to make any difference. With mklibs.sh: > > > > What exactly does this script do to libc (or really, what isn't it

Re: Library reduction on Alpha (was: Re: Alpha: aboot rescue disk)

2001-08-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Falk Hueffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Christopher C. Chimelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 7 Aug 2001, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > > > > Yes, it acually doesn't seem to make any difference. With mklibs.sh: > > > > What exactly does this script do to libc (or really, what isn't it

Re: Library reduction on Alpha (was: Re: Alpha: aboot rescue disk)

2001-08-07 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Christopher C. Chimelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7 Aug 2001, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > > Yes, it acually doesn't seem to make any difference. With mklibs.sh: > > What exactly does this script do to libc (or really, what isn't it > doing now)? There are some binutils issues that I'm wo

Re: Library reduction on Alpha (was: Re: Alpha: aboot rescue disk)

2001-08-07 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On 7 Aug 2001, Falk Hueffner wrote: > Yes, it acually doesn't seem to make any difference. With mklibs.sh: What exactly does this script do to libc (or really, what isn't it doing now)? There are some binutils issues that I'm working on that may be related... C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Library reduction on Alpha (was: Re: Alpha: aboot rescue disk)

2001-08-07 Thread Falk Hueffner
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > P. S. the mklibs.sh libm trick didn't seem to work > > Meaning -- didn't reduce far enough? Yes, it acually doesn't seem to make any difference. With mklibs.sh: -rw-r--r--1 root root 1743331 Aug 7 18:37 root.bin total 4273 -rwxr-xr-x