On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 7:45 PM Ilya Lipnitskiy <ilya.lipnits...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 7:18 PM Felix Fietkau <n...@nbd.name> wrote: > > > > > > On 2021-02-27 05:17, Rosen Penev wrote: > > > No package here depends on it. Furthermore, uClibc++ is a fairly buggy > > > C++ library and seems to be relatively inactive upstream. > > > > > > It also lacks proper support for modern C++11 features. > > > > > > The main benefit of it is size: 66.6 KB vs 287.3 KB on mips24kc. > > > Static > > > linking and LTO can help bring the size down of packages that need it. > > > > > > Added warning message to uclibc++.mk > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <ros...@gmail.com> > > I've been using iperf with uclibc++ for a long time. I know quite a few > > other people using it as well. > > I'd really appreciate it if you could change iperf to link just > > libstdc++ statically (rest should still be dynamic) in order to avoid > I think you mean link with uclibc++ statically? > > > pushing >200 KB of extra bloat (after compression!) onto iperf users. Good news. Adding -static-libstdc++ increases by a small amount:
Original: 43792 static-libstdc++ + flto: 68523 static-libstdc++: 69556 I was hoping for flto to reduce it further. Oh well. I assume further size reduction will involve editing the code. > > I realize that removing unmaintained packages is tempting, but please > > consider the fallout. > > > > - Felix > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openwrt-devel mailing list > > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
