Re: How to put glibc-2.2.2 on a diet...

[Peter Barada <pbarada at mail dot wm dot sps dot mot dot com>]

>Hmm, my libc.so.2 is 1.1Mb, that for arm-linux. I realise that different
>processors and OS are going to make a difference, but that still
>looks suspiciously big. Is is possible that you are compiling
>debugging symbols in?

Could be, I'm not sure.  How can one configure glibc to build a
library that doesn't have debug, and doesn't bother with the profiled
version?

>Try powerpc-linux-strip hello ?
>
>That said, my experience with glibc is that it's worth sharing
>it if there are more than 3 executables, precisely because the
>start code is so huge (I can't remember what kind of size, but
>200 Kb sounds "normal" (normal in terms of Glibc that is) ).

[/tmp] > echo 'main() { printf("hellow world\n"); }' > hello.c
[/tmp] > powerpc-linux-gcc -static -Wl,-Map,hello.map,--nmagic hello.c -o hello
[/tmp] > powerpc-linux-size hello
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 256268	   4124	   3348	 263740	  4063c	hello
[/tmp] > powerpc-linux-strip hello
[/tmp] > powerpc-linux-size hello
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 256268	   4124	   3348	 263740	  4063c	hello
[/tmp] > ls -l hello
-rwxrwxr-x    1 pbarada  users      267528 Jun 22 11:38 hello*

stripping it can't make it smaller than the size of the elf header,
text segment and data segment.

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