Re: crunch binary for miniroot
[email protected] (Christos Zoulas) Tue, 1 Aug 2006 19:06:07 +0000 (UTC)
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sun3 |
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In article <[email protected]>, Nathan J. Williams <[email protected]> wrote: >Izumi Tsutsui <[email protected]> writes: > >> Is there any reason why sun3 miniroot just use binaries >> (including shlibs) from DESTDIR rather than to use crunchgen(1) >> to create smaller binaries without shlibs? > >I think the history of the sun3 port didn't make it necessary to >shrink the miniroot very much; both the tape one was presumed to be >loading from and the swap partition one was loading into were >relatively large. Admittedly, that predated our dynamic-everything >userland. > >> If there is no particular reason, I'll commit the attachd changes >> (which create crunched binaries), so that we'll get smaller image >> and no longer have to sync shlib majors in the list file. > >Looks okay. > > - Nathan > Let's do it for consistency's sake. christos