Support for smaller glibc

[Ulrich Drepper]

"H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com> writes:

> The current glibc 2.2 has many features. But some of them are not
> needed in some cases. I am wondering if there is an interest to
> make those features configurabled at the build time. The ones I am
> thinging now are intl, iconv, iconvdata, locale, localedata, wcsmbs,
> wctype and wide char IO. They will be enabled by default. But you
> can disable them at the build time. It will make glibc much smaller.

This is creating a test and maintenance nightmare.  I never want this
to be possible in the official sources.

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