On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 03:45:48PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 03:13:14PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > Hmm. Then something must be eating up all that space -- powerpc
> > > binaries are not that much bigger then x86 binaries... Is library
> > > reduction not working on powerpc?
> >
> > No, PowerPC needs extra tools. We have hfsutils and yaboot and quik; I
> > guess these exceed the size of lilo and whatever else x86-only things
> > we need, that's all. hfsutils is quite big.
>
> no i ditched hfsutils and yaboot a loooong time ago. now
> ybin/mkofboot/yabootconfig on the root disk are a tiny wrapper that
> sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH and runs ybin from /target/... /usr/lib/yaboot
> is a symlink to /target/usr/lib/yaboot
>
> that was the only way especially given the discusting bloat of current
> yaboot binary.
Oh, OK, I'm completely wrong again :) So much for that. I wonder why
we're so much tighter on space, then.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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