From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 20:03:44 -0800 Received: from u-183-19.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de ([62.180.19.183]:64009 "EHLO u-183-19.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 20:03:22 -0800 Received: (ralf@lappi) by bacchus.dhis.org id ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 05:03:06 +0100 Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 05:03:06 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: Support for smaller glibc Message-ID: <20001202050306.A12319@bacchus.dhis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing For the information of the embedded community. Ralf ----- Forwarded message from "H . J . Lu" ----- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 09:12:35 -0800 From: "H . J . Lu" To: Ralf Baechle Cc: sglibc@external-lists.valinux.com Subject: Re: Support for smaller glibc On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 02:14:14PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:24:29PM -0800, H . J . Lu 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? > > The MIPS community is shifting more and more into the embedded area; one > of the increasing pains is glibc's increasing size which makes various > people continue to maintain glibc 2.0, the oldest and smallest libc for > MIPS. So your suggestion is very interesting indeed. > > I just have acknowledge Uli's concerns in this thread; they need to be > solved. But forking a smaller libc of standard glibc is nothing but the > St. Florian's principle ... > Ulrich is refusing to do anything with it. Do you have any suggestions? I will do my best to do it right. But I am afraid I cannot do it alone. BTW, please discuss it on sglibc@external-lists.valinux.com. -- H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com) ----- End forwarded message ----- Ralf