From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 23 10:14:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBEBA16A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:14:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from lilzmailso02.liwest.at (lilzmailso02.liwest.at [212.33.55.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BAFA43D31 for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:14:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgw@liwest.at) Received: from cm58-27.liwest.at ([212.33.58.27]) by lilzmailso02.liwest.at with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AYr3T-0006yd-TB for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:14:52 +0100 From: Daniela To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:09:46 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200312231832.04910.dgw@liwest.at> <200312231844.04403.User & <>> In-Reply-To: <> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312231909.46382.dgw@liwest.at> Subject: Re: Question about static libraries and compression X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 18:14:54 -0000 On Tuesday 23 December 2003 17:44, User & wrote: > Hi, > > To be honest, I don't really know about the static libraries question. But > other then that, when you install FreeBSD, and choose for the smallest > configuration possible during the installation, are you taking up more then > 700 MB of space then? I don't believe it'll be that much. I reckon that > recompiling the kernel and remove on unnesessairy things out of it saves > disk space as well. A normal installation takes much less, but I also put lots of apps on it. And I can't compile a minimal kernel because I can't know yet what will be necessary on the system running it. > You can also consider building FreeBSD from scratch. I've already done that, everything is built from scratch. > Like that you can make sure you're installing only the things you need to > conserve disk space. Or consider using Knoppix *hides* I'm trying to build a system like Knoppix, but with more features. > Cheers, > > Jorn > > On Tuesday 23 December 2003 19:32, Daniela wrote: > > I have a problem with linking: > > When I invoke make, I always give it the -DNOSTATIC option on the > > commandline to save space. However, this doesn't work. My system still > > builds static libraries. Or are the binaries linked dynamically, and the > > static libs are there for nothing? I guess it's safe to delete them, > > right? Everything is self-compiled, I do not use binary packages at all. > > > > Also, I read that the kernel can execute gzipped a.out binaries directly, > > can the same thing be done for ELF? I need a really small system, because > > I want to boot and run it from CD-ROM. > > > > Regards, > > Daniela > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"