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- Philip Blundell writes:
- >
- > On Tue, 13 May 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
- >
- > > Well one thing you can do Phil if you are temporarily paused is to build
- > > an a.out libc5. Ok we lose the dyanmic link -ldl stuff but I don't see why
- > > a bit of GBH wont make the rest of it build a.out ;)
- >
- > I thought of that, but it didn't really seem worth it at the time. I was
- > hoping that with only a bit more work I could build an a.out glibc, and we
- > could skip libc5 entirely for the ARM. In terms of the glibc library code
- > I think about 90% of it is done now - we don't have the crt startup files
- > yet though. Nor does it do .sa a.out-style shared libraries, and I'm not
- > totally sure whether that's worth putting in or not.
-
- If you don't use shared libraries, then the binaries do tend to turn out on the
- large side (~100k each), and this is definitely not desirable, especially when
- trying to build boot disks and the like.
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