Re: debian-installer and libraries

2002-12-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Bruce Sass | i.e., There is only a relatively small amount of code in di which | uses the reduced libs, so there would be no significant gains. yes. | If `yes'... sorry for distracting you from your work. no problem. :) -- Tollef Fog Heen

Re: debian-installer and libraries

2002-12-05 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: <...> > You don't have to distribute the reduced build. It is made as part of > make initrd. > > I think you are trying to solve a non-issue here. :) hmm, sounds like that may be the case. So, the only coding affected by -pic libs would be that which ne

Re: debian-installer and libraries

2002-12-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Bruce Sass | There seems to be a snag when a developer wants to use a routine not | in the libc (whatever) udeb. It seems to me like you think that the libc-udeb contains a reduced libc. It doesn't. | Delaying the reduction until it is time | to actually produce a version the must fit on a

Re: debian-installer and libraries

2002-12-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Martin Sjögren | One way would be to skip reducing when building the demo tree, so | you'd have full libs when doing make demo, but before creating the | initrd, the libs *must* be reduced! You don't have those size problems with initrd gotten from, say the network, AIUI. -- Tollef Fog Heen

Re: debian-installer and libraries

2002-12-05 Thread Martin Sjögren
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:04:32PM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: > There seems to be a snag when a developer wants to use a routine not > in the libc (whatever) udeb. Delaying the reduction until it is time > to actually produce a version the must fit on a floppy may make things > a little easier and s

Re: debian-installer and libraries

2002-12-04 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 5 Dec 2002, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Bruce Sass > | On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > | > Most of those are built from -pic libraries, which are reduced > | > versions of the normal libraries. It is impossible to know which > | > functions are needed before the actual build of

Re: debian-installer and libraries

2002-12-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Bruce Sass | On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > Most of those are built from -pic libraries, which are reduced | > versions of the normal libraries. It is impossible to know which | > functions are needed before the actual build of the boot media. | > | > So, yes, it is a bit incon

Re: debian-installer and libraries

2002-12-04 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Most of those are built from -pic libraries, which are reduced > versions of the normal libraries. It is impossible to know which > functions are needed before the actual build of the boot media. > > So, yes, it is a bit inconsistent, but it's the only

Re: debian-installer and libraries

2002-12-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* "Sebastian Ley" | I want to help debian-installer with a graphical ui and started | examining the possibilities of gtk-fb and gtk-directfb. cool. | In the todo list it says, there is need for a gtkfb udeb while it says | in build/README: | | | Apt is used to download the required udebs. This