Reducing glibc with mklibs.sh

[Joe Green]

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <5.1.0.14.0.20011017155249.03548ec0 at pop.gmx.de> you wrote:
> >
> > If you know any other tools to do this task, please let me know. Seems that
> > LIPO (Lineo) and LOT(HardHat) are not free.
>
> What makes you think so?
>
> The MV Library Optimizer at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/libraryopt/ it's under GPL.

Yes, but it's not well documented yet...I need to improve that and add
a mailing list.

Michael Habermann wrote:
> I tried to reduce the size of my self-compiled glibc 2.2.2, with the debian
> script mklibs.sh, but it terminates with the following output:
> ---
> /usr/local/powerpc-linux/bin/ld: /tmp/,mklibs.21079/lib-so: undefined
> versioned symbol name sys_siglist@@GLIBC_2.1

This looks like a problem with COPY relocation types, which was seen and
fixed for the LOT.

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Joe Green <jgreen at mvista.com>
MontaVista Software, Inc.

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