On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:27:23 +0200 Lionel Cons wrote:
> On 17 April 2013 15:02, Cedric Blancher <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> > On 2 April 2013 17:58, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> we have no reason to believe ast would have trouble building and running 
> >> on arm64
> >> a while back we built on arm32, directly and cross-compiled, with no 
> >> problems
> >>
> >> anyone with access to arm64 hw or an emulator can try to build ast-open and
> >> report what happens
> >>
> >> if space is an issue try building with
> >>         export PACKAGE_OPTIONS=optimize-space
> >> this will link ksh with ast .so's instead of .a's
> >> and also hard link all libcmd commands to one a.out
> >
> > Why aren't the libcmd commands always hardlinked to one a.out? Roland
> > Mainz did this for Solaris 11 with great effect and good space savings
> > and (compared to old Solaris's utilities) a major performance gain.

> Is there a reason why only ast-open ships with the a.out to access the
> commands in libcmd directly?

yes
the ast-ksh package is ksh + its builtins
so the expectation is that only ksh and maybe shcomp get installed in bin
packages > ast-ksh provide more than that
and the expectation is that many things will go into bin

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