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> > > solved. But forking a smaller libc of standard glibc is nothing but the
> > > St. Florian's principle ...
> >
> > Ulrich is refusing to do anything with it. Do you have any suggestions?
> > I will do my best to do it right. But I am afraid I cannot do it alone.
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> Ulrich is right. Start from a library that is intended to be modular and
> embedded. Folks are already looking at using newlib for this.
There are a few other methods. Lineo for instance has a utility
called Lipo which goes through all the binaries on a system and then
strips out all the library code that's unused, usually resulting in a
substantial reduction in the size of libc6. Lipo is a proprietary
app tho, currently only available supporting ia32 and ppc archetectures as
part of the Embedix SDK.
There's also uClibc, and i've heard some talk of using bsd's libc,
which i understand is also smaller. These may require modification to the
sourcecode of your apps to work properly.
- Eric
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