Question about static libraries and compression

[Daniela]

On Tuesday 23 December 2003 17:44, User & wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To be honest, I don't really know about the static libraries question. But
> other then that, when you install FreeBSD, and choose for the smallest
> configuration possible during the installation, are you taking up more then
> 700 MB of space then? I don't believe it'll be that much. I reckon that
> recompiling the kernel and remove on unnesessairy things out of it saves
> disk space as well.

A normal installation takes much less, but I also put lots of apps on it.
And I can't compile a minimal kernel because I can't know yet what will be 
necessary on the system running it.


> You can also consider building FreeBSD from scratch.

I've already done that, everything is built from scratch.


> Like that you can make sure you're installing only the things you need to
> conserve disk space. Or consider using Knoppix *hides*

I'm trying to build a system like Knoppix, but with more features.


> Cheers,
>
> Jorn
>
> On Tuesday 23 December 2003 19:32, Daniela wrote:
> > I have a problem with linking:
> > When I invoke make, I always give it the -DNOSTATIC option on the
> > commandline to save space. However, this doesn't work. My system still
> > builds static libraries. Or are the binaries linked dynamically, and the
> > static libs are there for nothing? I guess it's safe to delete them,
> > right? Everything is self-compiled, I do not use binary packages at all.
> >
> > Also, I read that the kernel can execute gzipped a.out binaries directly,
> > can the same thing be done for ELF? I need a really small system, because
> > I want to boot and run it from CD-ROM.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Daniela
> >
> >
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