[CUWiN-Dev] crunched: not quite, very close

[Bryan Cribbs]

David Young wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 02:44:32AM -0600, Bryan Cribbs wrote:
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>> David Young wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 02:16:41AM -0600, Bryan Cribbs wrote:
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>>>> I'm happy to say that a crunched version of most* of cuwin is 6.5 M.
>>>> The kernel is itself is about 1 meg on top of that.
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>>> This is for MIPS, right?  Regardless, I am impressed.  Good work!
>>>
>>>  
>>>       
>> Well... no... i386.   I got tired of not being able to use basic tools 
>> to debug things... but someone (probably me) should try a MIPS build, 
>> I'd be surprised if it made a difference.  Then again, I'm often taken 
>> by surprise.
>>     
>
> Binaries for 32-bit RISC machines like MIPS are ordinarily going to
> be bigger.
>
> What basic debug tools were you missing?
>
> Dave
>
>   
I should have used the "toolchain" versions but I did not consider that 
until late in my work.  The tools I was referring to are all right 
there, had I seen them.  (nm, ar, ldd, &c), using the toolchain versions 
instead of the host OS versions makes a huge difference in critical 
situations, and it is very easy to miss.