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Re: Some ways to save space on the floppies



Glenn McGrath wrote:
> Comparing static uClibc busybox against shared library reduced glibc.
> 
> busybox-static-uclibc	144276	(80525)
> 
> Total Shared (glibc)	727476	(343009)
> Total Static (uclibc)	144276	(80525)
> 
> Uncompressed saving	583 kB
> Compressed saving	262 kB
> 
> Moving to uclibc and a static binary will make a lot of difference,
> certainly give us a lot more flexibility in kernel features.

This is something I've hoped we could do for the bootfloppy all along,
and as there is now only some 50k free on that floppy, it would be great
if it happened.

> uClibc can be a shared library, but i didnt consider that in this
> comparison.

Any reason why not?

-- 
see shy jo

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