Re: Bug#182041: PIC library has bad name

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

> mklibs fails to find the PIC library for reduction since it's called
> libnewt-utf8_pic.a while mklibs expects it to simply be libnewt_pic.a
> 
> We're using newt debian-installer so it'd be nice if this were fixed so
> we could save some bytes on the boot media. :-)

I have a few questions: 

I've thought boot-floppies worked with the name libnewt-utf8_pic.a.
Why doesn't debian-installer mklibs not work with it?

And why does the boot media get some bytes free by changing the
name here ?




regards,
	junichi