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[sindi keesan <keesan2 AT cyberspace.org>]

Do you absolutely need all of glibc2 to compile or does each program
require a different set of files?  I do not look forward to downloading 
anything that large.  Is there some way to determine which files are
needed to compile a specific binary?

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> James Miller (office) wrote:
> > 
> > Probably you won't be able to compile anything unless 
> > you get a second hard drive.  The compiler from Slack71 
> > takes up about 120MB of HD space.
> 
> Most of that is from the bloated glibc2 libraries.  
> In BL1 (libc5 libraries) the compiler takes less 
> than 20mb of HD space.  Anybody wanting to compile 
> on a small HD should consider using BL1 instead of BL2.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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