Re: Chopping down shared libraries for the installation/rescue floppy

[david@elo.ods.com (David Engel)]

> Yes, "nm -D" does what I want, thanks!
> 
> Now I have to re-build the library to do this, don't I, because the
> object files have to be PIC. There's no way I can make this new library
> from /usr/lib/libc.a, is there?

Technically, you can.  However, the resulting library will require
fixups all over the place at load-time and wind up dirtying (read
wasting) lots of memory.

David
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