From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jurij Smakov Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:20:08 +0000 Subject: Re: silo fails to build with recent ext2fs libraries Message-Id: <20120118002008.GA6947@wooyd.org> List-Id: References: <20120115140938.GA7564@wooyd.org> In-Reply-To: <20120115140938.GA7564@wooyd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 01:51:51PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: David Miller > Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:56:56 -0500 (EST) > > > I'm looking into the rest. > > So just adding the stubs (or your idea, linking with libc) doesn't > work at all. > > All the new features in libext2 that get linked in cause the second > stage bootloader image to grow too large. > > I'll just have to extract the parts of libext2 that we actually need > into a stripped down local copy in SILO and I guess this will make > us immune to this issue showing up again in the future. If you haven't put too much effort into it yet, can you give me a few days to experiment with dropping unnecessary symbols from the built library using objcopy? If it turns out to be simple, I'd rather use this than duplicating code. Best regards, -- Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC