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Re: -rdynamic and -static


On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:24:19AM -0400, Stéphane Doyon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> [Please Cc me as I am not subscribed.]
> 
> Our software has modules that are implemented as shared libraries. But
> now there's a situation where we need it to be statically linked, and we
> can't figure out how to get it to work.
> 
> The software is called BRLTTY; it drives braille displays. There is a
> central module that implements screen review functions, and there are
> several driver modules, one for each supported braille display model. The
> driver modules are implemented as shared libraries, so we can choose at
> run-ttime which one to use.
> 
> Now we want to make an accessible boot diskettes / distribution
> installation diskettes. We link our main BRLTTY module statically,
> because we don't have a sufficiently small libc and friends.
> 

Are you using glibc? You can customize my sglibc to strip out stuffs
you don't need. You may get glibc down to about 500KB or less.



H.J.


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