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Re: setup w/char* eliminated is big
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:42:28 -0500
- Subject: Re: setup w/char* eliminated is big
- References: <011401c1b53b$01de5350$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>
*please* make sure that the '-' vs. '_' fix is in before releasing the
new setup. I've been sitting on the bzip2 update waiting on this...
(Also, the localdir-is-on-remote-share fix would be nice, but it isn't
as urgent as the '_' thing.)
--Chuck
Robert Collins wrote:
> Ok,
> finally got some breathing time.
>
> Setup with char * eliminated is ~350K. Ouch.
>
> This is why I've not committed my patch yet (I've been trying to see
> *where* the extra 100K appeared from).
>
> Chris - is this a problem? IMO it's still a tiny fraction of the total
> distribution size, and we're reducing the number of reasons a setup
> update is *required* as we make /etc/profile and so on into packages.
>
> If this is not a problem, I expect we can release a new setup after the
> weekend (or even at the beginning - whatever makes more sense).
>
> Rob
>
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