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On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Steven
> ===================
> James wrote:
> > > You install (pkg) the following packages
> > > from Slackware 4.0 (d1 directory):
> > > ------------
> > > binutils.tgz
> > > egcs.tgz
> > > gmake.tgz
> > > libc.tgz
> > > linuxinc.tgz
> > > ------------
> >
> > you get the size of those 5 packages installed
> > (ca. 30 MB?).
>
> That's too much.  Should be half that (10-15mb).
> Are you sure you got the packages from Slackware 4 ?

How much is it after deleting man doc info zoneinfo gconv locale?  Do you 
want to post a package with just the mininum required parts of these five 
packages that would fit better in loop BL3?  (Which would let you compile 
for libc5, while using ext2 BL3 with glibc added).

I think it would require only unpackaging all five files some place, 
deleting the unwanted parts, then recompressing as one big package 
(add ldconfig manually to a doinst.sh, or use makepkg).

There may be unneeded binaries too.  Do we really need all the binaries 
from binutils: objdump and strings-GNU and size?  Addr2line, gprof, 
ranlib? BL2 make appears to have only one needed file in it, 'make'. 
glibc has a bunch of binaries that we probably don't need all of 
(db1_dump185 and other db_ stuff?  liddlibc4?  Do we need any binaries 
from libc other than maybe ldd?

For dynamic compiling we should not need libc.a libc_p.a (libc_nonshared.a 
was needed once for something I did) or other static libraries in .a


Sindi

> Cheers,
> Steven
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