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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: Ralf Baechle <ralf at uni-koblenz dot de>
- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:14:14 +0100
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <20001128162429.A10102@valinux.com>
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 ...
Ralf