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sledge
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 Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 8:39 am Post subject: A slimmer Gentoo ;) |
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Size matters. Everbody knows that. 
How to install gentoo (stage3) with dietlibc
The easy (time-consuming  ) way:
After you have untared your stage3-tarball you have to emerge dietlibc
After that, edit your make.conf and add the following lines anywhere in your make.conf (preferably after the host-settings section):
| Code: | # Compiler Setting
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# If you want to use a different libc (i.e. fefe`s dietlibc) and
# you are provided with a wrapper script for gcc you want to
# change this line.
#COMPILER="gcc3"
COMPILER="diet" |
and change your CFLAGS:
| Code: | # I usually compile with -pipe and -fomit-frame-pointer ,too
CFLAGS="-march=your_arch_here -Os" |
Now you have to rebuild all you packages (that`s why it`s the time-consuming way ):
| Code: | # export CONFIG_PROTECT="-* /etc/make.conf"
# emerge -uUDep system
( prints packages )
# emerge -uUDe system
( recompiles all (new) packages using dietlibc )
# unset CONFIG_PROTECT
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... and continue with step 14 of the Installation Guide.
Don`t forget to backup your make.conf before every portage update. Portage will replace your make.conf with a default one.
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sledge
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I just noticed that this should have gone into "Installing Gentoo".
Doh!  |
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nikai
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In theory, this is a very nice idea.
But I guess it takes to hack ebuilds to actually use that wrapping.
I see other distros (like ROCK) put a lot of work in getting stuff to compile against dietlibc (like gawk, for example). |
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puggy
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 9:51 am Post subject: Re: A slimmer Gentoo ;) |
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| sledge wrote: | ... and continue with step 14 of the Installation Guide.
Don`t forget to backup your make.conf before every portage update. Portage will replace your make.conf with a default one. |
No it won't. etc-update might but only if you let it or are careless enough to just let etc-update auto-update all files.
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pilla
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Moving to Docs, Tips & Tricks.
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DefconAlpha
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 2:23 pm Post subject: Ok |
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So slimmer you say? How big is your install of Dietlibc Gentoo? Do you also have at least an approximation of the size after finishing the stage3 install? With glibc it is almost 1gb, just curious really.
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Chickpea
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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DefconAlpha wrote
| Quote: | | So slimmer you say? How big is your install of Dietlibc Gentoo? Do you also have at least an approximation of the size after finishing the stage3 install? With glibc it is almost 1gb, just curious really |
yours is really that high with only a base system...Stage 3? my system currently is at 1.1 gb and that is with X, evolution, a couple of window managers gedit, and Mozillafirebird and some other fun things. |
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DefconAlpha
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Chickpea wrote: |
yours is really that high with only a base system...Stage 3? my system currently is at 1.1 gb and that is with X, evolution, a couple of window managers gedit, and Mozillafirebird and some other fun things. |
Umm, i think so, perhaps it was more in the 600 - 700 MB range. But i have slept since then. Like several months worth of sleeping. (Not to mention several other memory-degrading activities)...
Now to get linux on two floppies with dietlibc. Then we can install gentoo on non-cdrom booting computers :)
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Chickpea
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Now to get linux on two floppies with dietlibc. Then we can install gentoo on non-cdrom booting computers  |
can't you just create a grub boot disk and install from a network or hard drive. I installed a couple of times from a spare hard drive...but it has been so long. |
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Gibberx
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 12:48 am Post subject: |
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..what is dietlibc? sounds like a replacement of glibc, of course...
does it make your binaries smaller, or what? |
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imp
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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From diet libc homepage:
| Quote: | | The diet libc is a libc that is optimized for small size. It can be used to create small statically linked binaries for Linux on alpha, arm, hppa, ia64, i386, mips, s390, sparc, sparc64, ppc and x86_64. |
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DefconAlpha
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| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Chickpea wrote: | | can't you just create a grub boot disk and install from a network or hard drive. I installed a couple of times from a spare hard drive...but it has been so long. |
Yes, but it would be really nice to have the two floppies that did all of the above... Boot from the floppies and install from cdrom, network, spare hard drive, etc. Anything really... Perhaps even modify the second floppy for clustering utilities or small servers (dhcp, iptables, ftp, mail, etc)
Just a nifty thing to have lying around for "one of those days"
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simcop2387
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| seldge i got to hand it to you so far my laptop has been recompiling system and its not even near done and i've got 40+ meg more of free space, everything appears to be working right now, when i'm done i'm doing an emerge world to get X and everything compiled with dietlibc, i was running near 25meg free before this |
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someguy
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wow good howto saving me space on my router
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ghardey
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 3:08 am Post subject: fomit-frame-pointer caused compiler cannot create executable |
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| Quote: | and change your CFLAGS:
| Code: | Code:
# I usually compile with -pipe and -fomit-frame-pointer ,too
CFLAGS="-march=your_arch_here -Os" |
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When I tried using the -fomit-frame-pointer flag I got an error "C compiler cannot create executable" when emerging gnet. config.log showed that it didn't like -fomit-frame-pointer. After I removed that flag emerged without error using dietlibc 0.23. |
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dub.wav
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| Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 8:21 am Post subject: Re: A slimmer Gentoo ;) |
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| sledge wrote: | Now you have to rebuild all you packages (that`s why it`s the time-consuming way ):
| Code: | # export CONFIG_PROTECT="-* /etc/make.conf"
# emerge -uUDep system
( prints packages )
# emerge -uUDe system
( recompiles all (new) packages using dietlibc )
# unset CONFIG_PROTECT
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If you have to rebuild the whole system, why not just start from stage1?  |
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Aaron_Brown
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After I have compiled everything with dietlibc can I remove glibc?
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_hesoez_
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is it normal that i still see 'gcc ... -Os -... blabla.c'
as an output on the screen when compiling something?
can i let another box that doesn't have dietlibc compile for my box with dietlibc when using distcc?
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airflow
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| Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2003 8:19 pm Post subject: Re: A slimmer Gentoo ;) |
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| dub.wav wrote: | | sledge wrote: | Now you have to rebuild all you packages (that`s why it`s the time-consuming way :wink: ):
| Code: | # export CONFIG_PROTECT="-* /etc/make.conf"
# emerge -uUDep system
( prints packages )
# emerge -uUDe system
( recompiles all (new) packages using dietlibc )
# unset CONFIG_PROTECT
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If you have to rebuild the whole system, why not just start from stage1? :? |
Because as far as I know you wouldn't have the possibility to emerge dietlibc before bootstrapping. So you would have to bootstrap twice... Better to start with a Stage-3 Installation in this case, I think.
regards,
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airflow
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| Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 2:51 pm Post subject: Re: A slimmer Gentoo ;) |
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| sledge wrote: | After that, edit your make.conf and add the following lines anywhere in your make.conf (preferably after the host-settings section):
| Code: | # Compiler Setting
# ================
#
# If you want to use a different libc (i.e. fefe`s dietlibc) and
# you are provided with a wrapper script for gcc you want to
# change this line.
#COMPILER="gcc3"
COMPILER="diet" |
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Are you sure this works? I had a look into the manpage of make.conf, and this (rather important) variable is not mentioned anywhere... I would like to try it, but it will take a week or so to recompile my system with my laptop, so I would like to be sure.
regards,
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Serj
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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Anyway, did anybody try dietlibc?
Does it work now with 2004.1?
Does all packages compile well with dietlibc?
P.S. Sorry for my English! |
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kamagurka
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 1:24 am Post subject: Re: A slimmer Gentoo ;) |
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| sledge wrote: | | Don`t forget to backup your make.conf before every portage update. Portage will replace your make.conf with a default one. |
what horrible nonsense. i'm not taking any advice from someone who doesn't even know about etc-update/dispatch-conf 
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Serj
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 6:24 am Post subject: |
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Yestarday, I'v try to use diet to reemerge some packages as writing above but nothing happend - the size of binaries have stay the same.
Does anybody now how to use diet in Gentoo 2004.1? |
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SDraconis
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:08 am Post subject: |
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| It looks like this thread it pretty old. I was wondering if anybody has had any luck with this in more recent versions of Gentoo. Does setting COMPILER in make.conf work to have things compile with dietlibc still? |
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Jeffrey0
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 5:01 am Post subject: Re: A slimmer Gentoo ;) |
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| Quote: | | It looks like this thread it pretty old. I was wondering if anybody has had any luck with this in more recent versions of Gentoo. Does setting COMPILER in make.conf work to have things compile with dietlibc still? |
I can't find any matches for COMPILER in all of portage... don't think it does anything. Looks like the new way is using profiles. There's one for uclibc.
| kamagurka wrote: | | what horrible nonsense. i'm not taking any advice from someone who doesn't even know about etc-update/dispatch-conf |
Look at the date. Portage updates *did* overwrite make.conf back then IIRC (used Gentoo for a little while back in 2003). |
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