minimize install size

[Florin Andrei]

I am trying to minimize the size of libc for an "embedded" system. I
first looked at uClibc, which works fine overall but there are all kinds
of tiny issues with it that i don't want to deal with. And anyway, i've
got a few hundred megs of Flash to play with, so i don't have to be
quite so pedantic as to replace glibc altogether with a compatible yet
still different software.

Nevertheless, i have to reduce the size of libc as much as possible.
What are the guidelines to do that?
Any ./configure options that are recommended? Any hacks? What can be
eliminated when installing it?

Essentially, i want to strip it down, removing all marginal features
(i18n and so on) while preserving the core functionality. It should
support most of the typical applications that run on a regular Linux
distro, but without all bells and whistles. Core bare-bones
functionality, nothing else.

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Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/