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  • From: Phil/CERisE/KG6MBQ <cerise AT littlegreenmen.armory.com>
  • To: Jon Svendsen <jon-sven AT frisurf.no>
  • Cc: Eric Womack <eric AT lasvegasdata.com>, sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Smallest Source Mage
  • Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 20:16:12 -0700 (PDT)

Jon Svendsen said:

> On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 02:50, Eric Womack wrote:
>
> First of all, just to get it out of the way, what you are trying to do
> CANNOT be done. NO WAY. While it is possible to run a linux system on
> the hardware, you describe, a from-source deployment of bleeding edge
> stuff like the 2.4 kernel and glibc 2.2 just WILL NOT happen.

You have a needlessly low opinion of pre-pentium x86s.

> That aside, I cooked up some patches that allows you to select i486
> optimizations in sorcery. These will let you compile stuff that will
> actually excute on the box. That's going to be the least of your
> problems though. The biggest of your problems is going to be that you
> simply do not have enough space (ram+disk combined), to pull this off at
> all. So shave wherever you can. strip everything. rm -rf all
> manpages/docs/<insert useless cruft here>. gcc3 is the guy who KILLED
> your SISTER. Stay away from him like he was the devil himself, cause he
> is. Also generally, if it's C++, you can't have it. feel free to build
> gcc without C++ support just to make sure. (saves you space and build
> time too)

There should be one for 386 too. Not for any good reason, but just
because one might as well.

-Phil/CERisE





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