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[David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:

> I recommend everyone upgrade their ext2 BL2 libc to that from SW8.1, it is
> not much larger and lets you use many more precompiled programs.

I upgraded my ext2 BL2 libc to that from SW9.1. The glibcsolibs package
from SW9.1 is only 1MB, and it works with linux 2.2.16. Nothing appears
to have broken; I just used installpkg and was able to continue to use
busybox, links, and ppp, even after rebooting. There is a very large
number of binary packages that will work with this libc.

> Can I delete libcurl.a?

Yes. You will then be unable to compile static binaries with libcurl,
but very few people actually want to be able to do that.

David