From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5856 invoked by uid 1002); 29 Oct 2003 20:24:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 3738 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2003 20:24:42 -0000 From: Vano D Reply-To: gentoo-dev@europeansoftware.com To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200310290931.19235.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> References: <1067440004.4911.6.camel@gentoo.europeansoftware.com> <1067443325.4944.17.camel@gentoo.europeansoftware.com> <200310290931.19235.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1067459090.4945.23.camel@gentoo.europeansoftware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:24:50 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 'submerge' was Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Embedded X-Archives-Salt: 2c18258d-88f6-4fce-a3ab-23f2dac82dde X-Archives-Hash: 9c5a6a05374d0d36efd6bc1ccae68d08 On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 18:31, C. Brewer wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2003 8:02, Vano D wrote: > > > The whole thing (with gpm, ncurses, links) is now 22 megs(if you dont > > include gpm, nvurses and links its 3 megs less.. 19 megs for a base > > system). Big for embedded but take in account that I only have made a > > small change in the gentoo scripts. Apart from that change (change > > agetty->getty in inittab) the rest is as it comes with baselayout. > > Just out of curiousity, are these uncompressed binaries? Or have you employed > gzexe to lighten the size? No compression. The only thing I did to them after creating the whole thing was rm -Rf /usr/share/{doc,man,info,zoneinfo,terminfo} (if I remember correctly). But anyhow.. I am positive it can be made even smaller, by using less binaries, cutting down on the baselayout or using a custom one (slackware rc scripts come to mind) the reason for this is not that the scripts take a lot of space, but they use some binaries and in my case instead of I copy the binaries themselves I emerge the whole package the binaries belong to. And course last but not least, using uglibc should shrink the thing even more (but then incompatibility issues might arise with some packages...) Cheers, Vano. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list