On Wed, 23 Apr 2025, Joe wrote:
On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 10:58:52 +0000 Nils <tuxifan@posteo.de> wrote:Hey! I'd like to compile all of DVD-1 myself but using `-Oz` to optimize for binary size rather than speed. How do I do that? Where do I start? I could only find infos on how to build DVD-1 yourself using existing binary packages...How else can you do it? A working compiler is binary code, as are its auxiliary packages. To compile anything you must use pre-compiled binaries. It's a bootstrap job. You start by using a running system to compile a
That's not how I read it.Off the top of my head I don't know how to change the compile options, DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS perhaps?
But the OP should start with dpkg-buildpackage to rebuild individual oackages.
Once everything is rebuilt, assemble the DVD as normalThere are some possible complications, I'd be inclined to build each package in a container and only install the build deps fir that package - some configure scripts might otherwise detect things they shouldn't
which might then mess with install depends. Hope the op has a lot of computing resources...