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Re: [rtl] Re: libc

On Die, 18 Mai 1999 Sean P. Collins wrote:
>I'm guessing you're using RedHat; my libc came from Debian. I'm not
>entirely sure why the Debian libc is so much smaller than RedHats. The
>Bootdisk-HOWTO suggests a method for stripping out the debugging
>information (and I quote):
>
>"Strip libraries and binaries

[snip]

>Hopefully this will help. I had a similar problem with the giant libc
>for RedHat, then I switched my development system to Debian and got the
>smaller libc as an unintended side effect. Let's see... the easiest way

For a development system you might actually want the "bigger" libc, since some
symbols are unvalueable when it comes to debugging :-)

Greetings,
Jochen
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