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Re: build failure on ia32



On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 03:45:48PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> 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.

Oh, OK, I'm completely wrong again :)  So much for that.  I wonder why
we're so much tighter on space, then.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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