[Buildroot] big root fs
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Tue Sep 11 13:17:54 UTC 2012
>>>>> "Zoran" == Zoran Djordjevic <djdjdjole at yahoo.com> writes:
Zoran> Hello
Zoran> I built linux kernel using Buildroot, but included glibc support
Zoran> instead of uClibc. For that matter I was using Crosstool NG.
Zoran> I achieved the goal - compiled the GTK applications and they
Zoran> work on my target ARM board. All of that is by using NFS on my
Zoran> Ubuntu machine. However the size of generated jffs2 is 52MB-
Zoran> which is huge for me. Although I included GTK examples, and
Zoran> maybe few more properties I still wander if the size is related
Zoran> (only) to glibc matter. I will try building with uClibc (only
Zoran> to detect difference in size), but at the moment it is important
Zoran> to me to use glibc, so what else can contribute to overal size
Zoran> of image, other than (maybe) glibc. I attatched my .config if
Zoran> someone want to look at it and maybe find some memory eating
Zoran> matter. Also, can size of glibc be reduced, by throwing out some
Zoran> properties.
First of all, a defconfig file (which you create by running 'make
savedefconfig') is quite a bit easier to read than the very verbose
.config.
Secondly, I see you have both directfb and X11:
BR2_PACKAGE_DIRECTFB=y
BR2_PACKAGE_DIRECTFB_TRACE=y
BR2_PACKAGE_DIRECTFB_XSERVER=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XORG7=y
BR2_PACKAGE_XSERVER_XORG_SERVER=y
You can most likely drop directfb. SDL is also relatively big. You also
have a number of unneeded X libraries.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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