Re: [Familiar] Next step in size reduction

Hello,

Thank you very much for your info about uclibc. Nice
details.

Best regards,

 --- Alexander Popov <s_popov@prosyst.bg> escribió: >
I doubt it'll be that easy...
>
> Please don't get me wrong - I'm a huge fan of uClibc
> and I made a few great final sollutions for my
> company that use it, but...
> uClibc is really small because it lacks
> functionality needed by common tools/libs that are
> currently used in Familiar...
> For example libs like Qt and SDL (probably gtk too)
> won't work with it - the C++ support in uclibc is
> still quite poor...
>
> I don't think that it's a good idea to replace glibc
> with uclibc, but I sure would love to be able to
> choose which one to be
> installed on my PDA.
> This will lead to a distro that more or less will be
> much different from Familiar - everithing should be
> compiled onece for
> glibc and once for uclibc...
>
> This means ipkgs for Familiar-glibc and ipkgs for
> Familiar-uclibc!!
>
> One last thing: if you have a smaller c library
> doesn't mean that you'll have smaller apps - the
> difference between uclibc
> and glibc is usually
> around 400-500K... by building a custom ( with
> stripped functionality) version of glibc you can
> reduce it with at least 300K
> so I don't see why would you want to use uClibc
> after all...
> uClibc is good for devices where you run a
> small/fixed number of well known applications which
> is not true for a general
> purpouse distro like Familiar
>
> Regards,
>
> J.Manrique Lopez wrote:
> > Hello everybody and Happy New Year,
> >
> > I have one of those 'old' h3100 machines that has
> 16MB
> > Flash and since some apps become using gtk 2.0
> > libraries, space needs are growing.
> >
> > Searching how to reduce this, I've found uclibc
> that
> > seems a great help:
> > http://www.uclibc.org/
>
> --
> Alexander Popov
> RTOS&JVM Team Leader
> Prosyst Bulgaria, Inc.
> email: s_popov@prosyst.bg
> mobile: +35987663193
> icq: 29207350
>

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Received on Thu Jan 02 20:35:42 2003