Re: busybox v. 1.18.3

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

15.02.2011 09:08, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Michael Tokarev (mjt@tls.msk.ru):
> 
>> size on i386:
>>      text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>>    403449    1790    8988  414227   65213 busybox-1.17.1
>>    420316    1787    8984  431087   693ef busybox-1.18.3
> 
> (cc'ing you, still...not sure if you're subscribed to -boot)

I subscribed to -boot back in November, in order
to help with busybox and other stuff.  Setting
Reply-To appropriately.

> Could you compare the size of the two udebs?

Sure.  For i386 arch:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 211893    1497    8684  222074   3637a busybox-1.17.1-9
 221134    1494    8684  231312   38790 busybox-1.18.3-1

Note again - the config has not changed at all, all new
applets are disabled.

> Great work, Michael (I can't really comment on the details...most
> being out of my field of expertise, but very obviously you did things
> carefully).

Thank you.  Not really great -- this is something I did and
still do on a regular basis since I maintain several boot-related
packages locally (including kernel, busybox and mkinitrd), and
I'd love to be able to use Debian packages for the same (they're
not as flexible yet).

/mjt