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

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, David Moberg wrote:

I wonder if there is a way to reduce the size of a new
> version of glibc. The old glibcs are already smaller but don't always
> work as well. :(

You can just add one piece at a time, starting with ld-linux, libc.so.6 
and libm.so.6.  These are larger than older versions, of course.

> You may be interested in taking a glance at BL2. It's based on
> Slackware 7.1 (glibc 2.1). But it doesn't have the nice small X setup
> of BL3, and the busybox is version 0.60.5 so sometimes new scripts
> don't work.

I am using BL2 with the uclibc busybox 1.1.0 that I compiled, and another 
list member and I are working on compiling busybox 1.4.1 - any requests 
for things not in my 1.1.0?  I put /busybox110 on the path ahead of 
bin/busybox after testing it.

> > Next step is Xvesa and friends.
>
> The BL3 Xvesa is static. It should work with any libc. However, the
> libc5 X client programs will need to be upgraded. Glibc-based X
> applications will sometimes accept the libc5 libX11, but a few will
> not, so it's usually smarter to replace the libc5 X infrastructure
> with that from SW7.1 or later.

Precompiled Opera 8 works.  Steven's Abiword is static.  Precomiled xpdf 
needs libc6 (but perhaps you could compile a libc5 version).

> David

Sindi