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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 01:50:55PM -0800, David Moberg wrote:
> Lee Forrest wrote:
> > Uclibc isn't stable enough, and my hardware requires a lot of libc6
> > software, so I decided to give in and 'upgrade' to glibc2,
> 
> glibc2 has several nice features, e.g. binary backward compatibility.
> However, like most GNU software, it's big. There's a script called
> "mklibs.sh" for Debian, which is supposed to let you remove features
> from your libc to reduce size if you don't need them. I tried it, but
> it doesn't seem to work with glibc. It does make a _very_ small
> uclibc, though. 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. :(

Here's how I managed to obtain a copy of mklibs.sh:

Download this debian package-

http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/download.pl?arch=i386&file=pool%2Fmain%2Fg%2Fgibraltar-bootcd%2Fmkinitrd-cd_0.52_i386.deb&md5sum=7ac993567a7306dbbd985226a1058135&arch=i386&type=main
 

Extract the contents of that ar (.deb) archive like so:

ar x  mkinitrd-cd_0.52_i386.deb

Then extract the script from data.tar.gz 

tar xvzf data.tar.gz ./usr/sbin/mklibs.sh

[delete]

Lee

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