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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: buildroot@uclibc.org
Subject: [Buildroot] Large number of duplicate files in sdk
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:00:06 -0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vhlf46$9b9$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)

When I do a "make sdk" (using 2024.02.6), the resulting tarball
contains tons of duplicate files.  I'm using an external Linaro ARM
toolchain.  With a fairly bare-bones package selection, the sdk tarball
generated by buildroot appears to be about 40% duplicate files by
size (about 20% by count).  According to a Python app I hacked
together it looks like there are 2300+ duplicated files taking up
380MB of wasted disk space.

[The fdupes utility finds about 100 fewer duplicates than my Python
application, so my numbers might be slightly off.]

Pretty much all of the include and library files from the external
toolchain are found under both ./opt/ext-toolchain/arm-linux-gnueabihf
and again under ./arm-buildroot-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot

Are both copies of all those files needed?

Is there some option to prune unneeded files?

My first impulse was to just delete ./opt/ext-toolchain, but I noticed
that there are couple dozen files under ./bin that are symlinked to
.../opt/ instead of being duplicated like everything else.

--
Grant

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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-20 20:00 Grant Edwards [this message]
2024-11-20 23:27 ` [Buildroot] Large number of duplicate files in sdk Grant Edwards
2024-11-21  8:18   ` Peter Korsgaard
2024-11-21 15:06     ` Grant Edwards

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