On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 09:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I think Charles means that we need tar and gzip equivalents in a
> interpreter language because that's the compression we use with every
> package (lrp = tar.gz). Those utilities are needed to install the packages
> with the linuxrc script inside the initramfs.
>
> Zlib is completely different and would also mean to include the zlib
> library next to the lua binary inside the initramfs, which is probably
> much bigger than using the "native" klibc compiled utilities.
>
> But we have some options to make things smaller and maybe even use the
> klibc utilities (if the needed ones are implemented yet).
Eric,
There is a gcc wrapper (klcc) for compiling applications with klibc.
Gzip, ash, and syslinux are already ported. Is tar the only missing
item?
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/klibc/cvsroot/klibc/
klcc.1,v
klcc.in,v
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