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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > You compiled it on a computer with SW91 solibs and SW71 glibc?
>
> Yes. But the requirement for SW91 solibs defeats the whole
> purpose of mixing the two versions. It would be better to use
> both SW91 solibs and glibc, as the SW91 glibc is much
> smaller.

        glibc   glibcso  binutils  (g)make      egcs/gcc+gcc-g++
7.1 2.1.2 22M   750K     1.5M      278K      2.95.2     3.1MB
8.1 2.2.5 24M   1.3M     2.4M      303K      2.95.3     1.7+1.8=3.5MB
9.1 2.3.2 14M ! 1.0M     3.1M      342K      3.2.3      3.4M+4.5M=7.9M

I can't see any reason not to upgrade to SW91 glibc.  How did they 
actually get it smaller?

I had to upgrade to SW81 binutils to get 'as' to work.
An extra 600 to upgrade to SW91 binutils.

Why has gcc become so much larger?  I save 8MB by upgrading glibc, then 
lose 5MB by upgrading gcc, from SW71 to SW91?

> > Can I compile for SW91 solibs (dynamically) if I have that plus an earlier
> > glibc, having first deleted glibc, installed the later solibs, then
> > reinstalled glibc older than the solibs?
>
> I guess so. I installed the two libraries in the opposite order: SW71
> glibc first, then SW91 solibs.

I will switch to SW91 glibc 2.3.2.  And use precompiled gcc 3.2.3.

> > > glibc-2.3 solibs is only 150k larger than glibc-2.1.

Did I read this wrong?  I copied down 1024K (2.3.2) vis 757K (2.1.3)
Closer to 275K.

> > It is the full glibc which is a lot bigger.
>
> glibc-2.3 full glibc is much smaller than glibc-2.1 full glibc.
8MB smaller, amazingly.  Did they leave out older hardware?

> David
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