Support for smaller glibc

[Mo McKinlay]

Yesterday, H . J . Lu (hjl@valinux.com) wrote:

  > 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.
  > Any comments?

I work as a programmer trying to fit Linux+Mozilla+X into 16 meg of disk
space (flash card) for a semi-embedded system; being able to disable
chunks of glibc at build-time would be a wonderful thing (from my
perspective). So yes, there is interest :-)

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