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  • From: Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Development Tools for BL (8)
  • Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:08:01 -0800

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:37:26PM +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> Lee Forrest wrote:
> >
> > Speaking of rescue disks, _there's_ a good example of how
> > to trim libraries...
>
> Since you are interested in minimizing libraries, you
> might be surprised to find that BL3 happily boots with
> no libraries. You can delete the entire /lib directory
> and it still works. Many of the utilities are linked to
> libc5 so they won't work if you delete the /lib directory.
> But the foundation works fine -- you can even run an
> Xterminal without the libraries.

That _really_ surprises me. I would have thought, at the
very least, that an xterm would need the xlibs.

Lee





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