[NTLUG:Discuss] Rebuilding (G)libc from an SRPM

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 13:04, George Lass wrote:
> I am attempting rebuild libc (or maybe glibc) for a redhat
> 8.0 system. The originally installed libc in /lib has the
> following characteristics:
> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root     root      1327065 Sep  5  2002 libc-2.2.93.so
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Apr 27 05:51 libc.so.6 ->
> libc-2.2.93.so
> but when rebuilt (using rpm & rpmbuild) from glibc-2.2.93-5.src.rpm it
> looks like this:
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root     11255857 Sep 20 17:56 libc.so
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            7 Sep 20 17:30 libc.so.6 ->
> libc.so
> I'm somewhat reluctant to actually install this thing given that it is
> nearly 10X the size of the original.  Anyone have any ideas?

Any reason why you rebuilt GLibC?
Optimized for Athlon?
Other?

I've rebuilt GLibC to optimize for Athlon.
But I've never had any issues doing such.
No size issues.

11MB seems big for even a non-stripped GLibC.
Possibly built with debugging or other symbols?

What parameters (to ./configure, or via "--target=") did you pass?


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