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Message from Steven
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Sindi wrote:
> 
> You can try comparing sizes of links-0.95+xli+libX11+Xvesa 

If your only X executable is xli, there is no need 
for libX11.  xli statically linked to libX11 will 
always be smaller than a dynamic xli plus libX11.

> I think libc.so.0 was smaller than libc.so.5

Yes, uClibc is about half the size of libc5.
And libc5 is about half the size of glic2.

I put libc5 in BL3 instead of uClibc for 2 reasons:
(1) updates to uClibc break binary compatibility
(2) there are many more libc5 binaries available

> This dbclient might fit into BL3.50 in the spare 
> 100K.  

If it were libc5, it would certainly fit.  In fact
I tried compiling a small dbclient for BL 3.5, but
the static binary was too big and behaved strangely.

> Would omitting busybox telnet save any space?

Certainly it would save some space.  But telnet is
useful for other purposes.

Cheers,
Steven