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On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> 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.

Your BL3 links2 is 3MB, dynamic against libc5 and libX11.
I don't know how blueflops got theirs so much smaller (even
including the extra dependencies).  Are programs smaller if compiled 
dynamically against uclibc?

> > 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 glibc2.
>
> 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.

How did they get the uclibc-dynamic dbclient into about 45K?  When I 
compiled it with defaults it was over 100K (glibc-dynamic).

> > Would omitting busybox telnet save any space?
>
> Certainly it would save some space.  But telnet is
> useful for other purposes.

Are there things telnet can do that dbclient cannot do?
(Other than be smaller and work with telnetd instead of sshd).

> Cheers,
> Steven
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