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Re: Support for smaller glibc
- To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at valinux dot com>
- Subject: Re: Support for smaller glibc
- From: Mo McKinlay <mmckinlay at gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:33:14 +0000 (UTC)
- cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: inter/open Labs
Yesterday, H . J . Lu (hjl@valinux.com) wrote:
> The current glibc 2.2 has many features. But some of them are not
> needed in some cases. I am wondering if there is an interest to
> make those features configurabled at the build time. The ones I am
> thinging now are intl, iconv, iconvdata, locale, localedata, wcsmbs,
> wctype and wide char IO. They will be enabled by default. But you
> can disable them at the build time. It will make glibc much smaller.
> Any comments?
I work as a programmer trying to fit Linux+Mozilla+X into 16 meg of disk
space (flash card) for a semi-embedded system; being able to disable
chunks of glibc at build-time would be a wonderful thing (from my
perspective). So yes, there is interest :-)
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