On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:05:03PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Don't know, but I'm not sure that's a very good idea. The library > reduction as implemented by mklibs is a bit of a kludge IMO, which seems > to fail every so often for one of our architectures, because that > architecture's ABI uses some obscure ELF feature or other that the > mklibs authors didn't know about, or mklibs missed a symbol dependency, > or something else. > This is not really a big deal in the case of d-i, since first, when > things fail, they fail for everyone who uses the same image, and second, > if the installer fails, you just can't install using the broken image, > but you can still use the system that's already installed (if any), or > fall back to a different install image. Both are not true for initramfs > generation. You could obviously just fall back to using the full .so in the case of initramfs generation. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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