On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 05:08 -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> Removing libc.a would be most effective,
Yes, please consider doing that, it sounds pretty effective.
> but I'm afraid we still need
> a handful of statically linked binaries for boot time initialization and
> system recovery utilities.
I think it would be nice to avoid even that, it takes up lots of disk
space, see [1] which makes Fedora somewhat less appealing for embedded
use - such as OLPC where there probably is still a few statically linked
binaries that are completely useless on such a system.
Note that SUSE just includes the glibc and other required DSO's in the
initramfs; I did the same for my livecd stuff (that has a rather
complicated initramfs to setup dm-snapshot for rw rootfs) and it works
very nicely.
So it's definitely possibly but I'd expect some resistance from certain
package maintainers :-)
David
[1] : this is just _some_ of the statically linked binaries on my system
$ du -c -h `find /sbin/ -iname "*.static"`
780K /sbin/kpartx.static
4.0K /sbin/restore.static
4.0K /sbin/rrestore.static
4.0K /sbin/dump.static
840K /sbin/dmsetup.static
4.0K /sbin/rdump.static
792K /sbin/udevd.static
460K /sbin/insmod.static
744K /sbin/mdadm.static
1.6M /sbin/lvm.static
964K /sbin/dmraid.static
620K /sbin/mdassemble.static
6.7M total
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