On Jun 6,  8:18am, thorpej@wasabisystems.com (Jason Thorpe) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/utils/sysinst

| On Jun 5, 2004, at 11:07 PM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| 
| > Log Message:
| > Get rid of the EXTERN/INIT mess; fix so that we can process this with 
| > xstr(1).
| > Not worth processing though, since on the i386 we only save ~3K.
| 
| 3K is 3K.  Why not go ahead and save it?
| 
|          -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>

Because we would need to:

1. fix the rules in make to handle xstr
2. kill parallel make for it because of the strings database
3. fix the rules in the Makefile to handle xstr [I've done that]
4. make xstr a host tool.

Seemed too much work for 3K.

christos