On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 03:13:14PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > Hmm. Then something must be eating up all that space -- powerpc > > binaries are not that much bigger then x86 binaries... Is library > > reduction not working on powerpc? > > No, PowerPC needs extra tools. We have hfsutils and yaboot and quik; I > guess these exceed the size of lilo and whatever else x86-only things > we need, that's all. hfsutils is quite big. no i ditched hfsutils and yaboot a loooong time ago. now ybin/mkofboot/yabootconfig on the root disk are a tiny wrapper that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH and runs ybin from /target/... /usr/lib/yaboot is a symlink to /target/usr/lib/yaboot that was the only way especially given the discusting bloat of current yaboot binary. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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