Re: On lh-bootstrap and mkroot

2018-09-03 Thread Casper Ti. Vector
On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 08:47:32PM +, Laurent Bercot wrote: > I have asked landley before whether he shared my interests for weird > things such as using less resources than the shell, or supervision > systems. His answer was a resounding and unambiguous "no". His interests > are focused on ma

Re: On lh-bootstrap and mkroot

2018-09-03 Thread Casper Ti. Vector
On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 02:34:41PM -0400, Zach van Rijn wrote: > The ones in [3] are not stripped, and that accounts for most of > the size discrepancy. I will ask Rob to consider adding that to > his 'mcm-buildall.sh' script. I simply build/host binaries. Thanks for explanation; now I understand.

Re: On lh-bootstrap and mkroot

2018-09-03 Thread Zach van Rijn
On Mon, 2018-09-03 at 20:47 +, Laurent Bercot wrote: >   The existence of my toolchains, and Zach's, is relatively > independent from the existence of lh-bootstrap and mkroot. I can only speak for 'mkroot' and say that my toolchains came to exist upon Landley's remark that "someone should do t

Re: On lh-bootstrap and mkroot

2018-09-03 Thread Laurent Bercot
The existence of my toolchains, and Zach's, is relatively independent from the existence of lh-bootstrap and mkroot. As far as I'm concerned, the creation of these toolchains was an exercise in working with musl-cross-make at start - and then some people found them useful, so I built them for

Re: On lh-bootstrap and mkroot

2018-09-03 Thread Zach van Rijn
On Tue, 2018-09-04 at 01:39 +0800, Casper Ti. Vector wrote: > Although I have tried neither of lh-bootstrap or mkroot [1], I > noticed that the toolchains of the former is nearly one > magnitude smaller than those [2] of the latter, while both > seem to be based on musl and statically linked. > >