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Re: busybox still too bloated



On Wed Sep 26, 2001 at 03:28:51PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:05:17AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > to have on the boot floppies) brings it to 59k.  It looks like the debian ash
> > > binary now in the boot floppies weighs in at 81k (and lacks both command line
> > > editing and tab completion).
> > 
> > The udeb is only 72k though.
> 
> and it doesn't break powerpc unlike busybox ash.  (i have already
> explained why).

I missed the explanation.  If there is something specific that 
busybox ash does wrong that prevents its use on powerpcs, I'd 
very much like to know so I can fix it,

 -Erik

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