Subject: Re: crunch binary for miniroot
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 08/01/2006 10:34:04
Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp> 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