Chris Lumens wrote: > Hi there. I've been working on a Slackware port to the Alpha for some > time and have been having issues getting my rootdisks down to size. I > went looking at the sizes of things on the Debian rootdisk and noticed > that your libc.so is only about 600k. Since this is fully half the size > of my libc.so, I would love to know how you managed to do that. > > Would it be possible for me to take a look at your build scripts, patches, > etc for making the glibc version that's on your rootdisk? It would be > very helpful, and much appreciated.
No problem at all. Just go to any mirror via http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ then look in pool/main/g/glibc, the upstream source is in .orig.tar.gz and Debian patches are in .diff.gz files. Unpack, patch, "chmod +x debian/rules" and examine debian/rules, which is a makefile. I'm not a libc person at all, but can help this much. :-) HTH, -Adam P. Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe!
