Re: crunch binary for miniroot

[email protected] (Christos Zoulas) Tue, 1 Aug 2006 19:06:07 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sun3
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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