On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 05:16:29PM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote: > because you want avoid 10 times bigger binary? (alpine linux's > apk-tools is 90k dynamic and 900k static due to libcrypto for > hashing/signing)
Wow that does sound pretty big. > Yes for upgrade, I'll probably recommend do that with static version > and maybe even tell people to manually replace /bin/busybox with > /bin/busybox.static. > > Still i think beeing able to set ABI_VERSION is a good idea. But if you have to replace it with a static version everytime you upgrade, is there ever a time when you will actually run it using the dynamic version? > But the price is that extra bloat for libcrypto, libz and uclibc dupe > code in there. I do understand that some people are willing to pay > that price. No problem. Current git is good. Everyone is happy. Lets > move on. Well I have the advantage of running apt on powerpc while installing packages for use on coldfire, so I get to replace all the uclinux stuff at once, generate a new ramdisk image and reboot the coldfire all from a nice standard debian powerpc environment. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/uclibc
