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Re: Support for smaller glibc
- To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at valinux dot com>
- Subject: Re: Support for smaller glibc
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 28 Nov 2000 16:37:32 -0800
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <20001128162429.A10102@valinux.com>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
"H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com> writes:
> The current glibc 2.2 has many features. But some of them are not
> needed in some cases. I am wondering if there is an interest to
> make those features configurabled at the build time. The ones I am
> thinging now are intl, iconv, iconvdata, locale, localedata, wcsmbs,
> wctype and wide char IO. They will be enabled by default. But you
> can disable them at the build time. It will make glibc much smaller.
This is creating a test and maintenance nightmare. I never want this
to be possible in the official sources.
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