Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 11:05:29 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r268461 - in head: . gnu/lib/libreadline gnu/lib/libreadline/history gnu/lib/libreadline/readline gnu/lib/libreadline/readline/doc gnu/usr.bin/gdb gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gdb gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gd... Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmo=kLQ27km1hRcwFsinmBMA=UVWcZyw5gBLJ-V1UvQPuOw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140709172305.GD56040@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <201407091552.s69FqUon070685@svn.freebsd.org> <53BD68E4.1070706@freebsd.org> <CAJ-VmonsZzATyWC9g-pxaQ_qDSvOh-jbiWhY=92vgmovqvn-BQ@mail.gmail.com> <20140709172305.GD56040@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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On 9 July 2014 10:23, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 10:12:27AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> Hi, >> >> By doing this you're actually making more work for the really embedded >> people who have size constraints on things. >> >> I dislike privatelib but it at least allows for code sharing where >> before people would just statically link things into binaries. > > do you install gdb on your embedded environnement? because that is the only > user of libreadline. See below. >> >> I've had to actively undo this kind of dumb before in order to get >> things to fit on very small flash root filesystems. >> >> Shared libraries are good. Please stop assuming we have lots of disk >> space and RAM to have duplicates of things floating around. > > Facts: > Before > gdb + kgdb + gdbtui + libreadline.so.8 + libhistory.so.8 = 8976 k > After > gdb + kgdb + gdbtui = 8973 k > > I don't think I have damaged too much your embedded system am I wrong? > > Do I miss something? > > (Yes I have checked that before turning into an internallib given my first > approach was to turn into a privatelib. Sure, except for the people who have done things like rolled local configuration/management telnet interfaces for these things. They're also using libreadline (and things like the cisco UI library.) And yeah, I do install gdb in there from time to time. Code sometimes needs debugging. :-) -a
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