On Wed, 3 May 2000, Jeff Sutherland wrote:
> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nandana writes:
> > >Has anybody tried to cross-compile libc5 library ( not glibc ) on to
> > >linux-arm flatform.
> > >Is it possible at all.
> >
> > Not without some porting effort. I think this would be a
> > waste of time. You
> > would do better to invest your work in reducing the footprint
> > of glibc if this
> > is important to you.
> >
> > p.
>
> Agreed. BTW, for those interested in minimizing file sizes, I've found that
> many of the Makefiles in the GNU sources run gcc with the -g switch
> (debugging) turned on. If you have no need to debug library routines or are
> preparing production releases, be sure to turn this off. It will make a
> dramatic difference in the size of your executables.
Alternately you can 'strip' the resulting libraries which is probably
simpler to do.
Nicolas
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