Sounds good. :)
-a On 9 July 2014 16:25, Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 11:05:29AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> On 9 July 2014 10:23, Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> > On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 10:12:27AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> By doing this you're actually making more work for the really embedded >> >> people who have size constraints on things. >> >> >> >> I dislike privatelib but it at least allows for code sharing where >> >> before people would just statically link things into binaries. >> > >> > do you install gdb on your embedded environnement? because that is the only >> > user of libreadline. >> >> See below. >> >> >> >> >> I've had to actively undo this kind of dumb before in order to get >> >> things to fit on very small flash root filesystems. >> >> >> >> Shared libraries are good. Please stop assuming we have lots of disk >> >> space and RAM to have duplicates of things floating around. >> > >> > Facts: >> > Before >> > gdb + kgdb + gdbtui + libreadline.so.8 + libhistory.so.8 = 8976 k >> > After >> > gdb + kgdb + gdbtui = 8973 k >> > >> > I don't think I have damaged too much your embedded system am I wrong? >> > >> > Do I miss something? >> > >> > (Yes I have checked that before turning into an internallib given my first >> > approach was to turn into a privatelib. >> >> Sure, except for the people who have done things like rolled local >> configuration/management telnet interfaces for these things. They're >> also using libreadline (and things like the cisco UI library.) >> >> And yeah, I do install gdb in there from time to time. Code sometimes >> needs debugging. :-) >> > They can in that case use libedit which exports a libreadline compatibility > interface in the base system (it is working well with the known cisco-like UI > things ;) so even in that case I save them space given libedit is required for > /bin/sh (the only known problem can happen if the are using unicode and from > my > last test the cisco UI thing is not unicode friendly either so that should > make > no difference here for them). > > The other thing is there are a couple of ABI incompatibilities between the > libreadline version we have in base and newer libreadline which is getting > more > and more use making it more complicated to manage ports that requires newer > readline. > > regards, > Bapt _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
