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[Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org> wrote:
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> Tucking away a tree of static tools to be used by sorcery independent of 
> the normal casts that
> would help regardless of using mawk or gawk. I'm not saying that
> alternatives shouldn't be explored, just that I feel that this can
> easily result in other yet unknown issues.

Well, definitely we don't want further problems, but we're talking
about drop-in replacements.

As said before, with the exception of a minor glitch, there were no
noticeable side effects so far after replacing gawk. There are a few
places in sorcery which still use gawk explicitly, I will be working
on fixing that.

Regarding bash, disabling readline nls and curses yields a much slimmer 
variant

bash binary sizes (stripped):
932616 dynamic, glibc, all features
680208 dynamic, glibc
815848 static, musl

That's why I think musl is a good option for such a static environment
if we had to have one.