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Date:      Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:14:44 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: libc size 
Message-ID:  <20021030221417.J22480-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021030214158.CB6EA2A88D@canning.wemm.org>

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On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Peter Wemm wrote:

> Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Nate Lawson wrote:
> > > Here is a link to the size of various components of libc, sorted by text
> > > size.  If you can find some way to reduce or even remove some of this,
> > > please submit a patch.
> > >
> > >   http://www.root.org/~nate/freebsd/lib_size.out
> >
> > Move the resolver code out to ibresolv.so, and link libc.so
> > against libresolv.so so that legacy applications are happy, as
> > long as they are compiled shared.  Non-network apps can ignore
> > most of it.  Internal use of some of the biggest chunks is
> > limited, so this should avoid dragging in a lot of it.
>
> We've been over this before.  To make this work right, we need to make
> /bin and /sbin dynamically linked.  NetBSD's /rescue/* approach would
> solve the "oops!" and other foot shooting problems.

Yes please. Our root filesystem space requirements are too high, IMHO.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
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