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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Bigger binaries in FreeBSD-1.1.5 Date: 19 Jul 1994 19:03:33 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 30 Message-ID: <30h825$fat@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <30g7pb$4cs@gisli.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <30g7pb$4cs@gisli.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de>, Wilhelm B. Kloke <wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> wrote: >When I tried to upgrade from 1.1 to 1.1.5 I found that the statically >linked binaries in /bin and /sbin have grown a lot. .... >As far I found this is not due to any usable new functionality ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You didn't look hard enough. FreeBSD 1.1.5 now has a good start on setlocale() support, which allows folks outside of the U.S. to be more productive. >a lot of library stuff dealing with LOCALE and similar things >included now. See above. >Is there a way to avoid this overhead? >If yes, the Makefiles should be changed to to this by default to allow >small root partitions. You have the source, feel free to send the changes back to us. :-) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.