[linux-lvm] Re: another nice feature for packagers ...

[Mark van Walraven]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 07:00:55AM -0500, AJ Lewis wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:46:20PM +1200, Mark van Walraven wrote:
> > I don't know about 1.0, but 0.9.1_beta6 built a liblvm-10.so but no
> > liblvm-10.a.
> 
> Yeah, the latest CVS now builds liblvm-10.a instead of just liblvm.a (That
> was an oversight on my part :( )

Ah.

> > Liblvm.a could not be reduced - the reduction tool was expecting to
> > find a "PIC archive library" containing "individual shared objects"
> > with .os suffixes.
> 
> Hmm...interesting.  Which reduction tool is this?  I haven't dealt with this
> before, but it definitely would be worth supporting.

mklibs.sh, originally by Marcus Brinkmann.

http://cvs.debian.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/~checkout~/boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/mklibs.sh

The last one I tried was revision 1.17, but it the lastest looks ok.

Very effective on glibc:

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       887712 Mar 26 10:35 /lib/libc-2.1.3.so
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       369964 Mar 28 23:11 libc-2.1.3.so

This was a big help in getting a 2.4 kernel and an initrd with the needed
LVM files onto a 1.44MB floppy!

Regards,

Mark.