Subject: Re: crunch binary for miniroot
To: None <port-sun3@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 08/01/2006 19:06:07
In article <mtuu04wwmn7.fsf@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>,
Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com> wrote:
>Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp> writes:
>
>> Is there any reason why sun3 miniroot just use binaries
>> (including shlibs) from DESTDIR rather than to use crunchgen(1)
>> to create smaller binaries without shlibs?
>
>I think the history of the sun3 port didn't make it necessary to
>shrink the miniroot very much; both the tape one was presumed to be
>loading from and the swap partition one was loading into were
>relatively large. Admittedly, that predated our dynamic-everything
>userland.
>
>> If there is no particular reason, I'll commit the attachd changes
>> (which create crunched binaries), so that we'll get smaller image
>> and no longer have to sync shlib majors in the list file.
>
>Looks okay.
>
> - Nathan
>
Let's do it for consistency's sake.
christos