Re: Question about apply eglibc configurability to create minimal image

[Kang Kai <Kai.Kang@windriver.com>]

Hi Mark,

Thank you very much for your detailed comments.

>
>  From the above, I'm pretty sure that "netbase" will require a lot of networking
> components, specifically adding things like libc-inet.  So avoid netbase.
>
> It's possible that keyboard/keymaps may cause additional stuff to come in due to
> locale requirements.. so I'd dump those as well..
>
> sysvinit may also introduce some additional items -- so if it causes problems,
> remove it and switch to the init located within busybox.

sysvinit and  busybox, tinilogin require eglibc libc-crypt support.

And busybox need libnsl, so I try to finger out how to break these 
depencies.

> update-alternatives is what included gettext -- so this might need some
> enhancement to avoid gettext as a requirement.  So I'd suggest skipping it.
> (Note without it, it's likely busybox, tinylogin may not get setup properly...)

I will test it.

> udev is quite complex and drags in a number of components -- so drop that..

RP suggested using mdev provided by busybox instead, I'll do it later.

> Leaving:
>
>      base-files \
>      base-passwd \
>      busybox \
>      initscripts \
>      modutils-initscripts \
>      sysvinit \
>      tinylogin
>
> First see if you can compile the above with a minimal eglibc configuration.  If
> not I can help you work through those issues..  If you can, you SHOULD see a
> fairly dramatic decrease in size.
First of all, I do the minimal with your direction and give you feedback.

> --Mark
Thank & Regards,
Kai
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> I made a mistake that try eglibc configurability in a directory which
>> has build core-image-minimal, so the packages which depend on eglibc
>> didn't rebuild, and I didn't find the dependency before. I am sorry!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kai