Re: [ppc patch] shrink grubof build

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Sep 14, 2004, at 6:17 AM, Stefan Reinauer wrote:

> * Hollis Blanchard <address@hidden> [040914 02:59]:
> > This patch shrinks the size of the 'grubof' binary from >300K to ~60K
> >
> > 2004-09-13      Hollis Blanchard        <address@hidden>
> >
> >         * conf/powerpc-ieee1275.rmk (grubof_LDFLAGS): add -N and -S
>
> I see that -S makes sense (stripping debugger symbols), but -N (setting
> text sections to writable) I don't fully understand...

That's what Marco and I said as well. :) However, that flag is used in 
the i386 build, and shrinks the PPC binary significantly as well.

The full description is this:
        -N
        --omagic
	Set the text and data sections to be readable and writable. Also, do 
not page-align
        the data segment, and disable linking against shared libraries.
(The text segment would need to be marked writeable if the data segment 
is not page-aligned.)

I don't know what "disable linking against shared libraries" entails, 
but that may be the trick.

-Hollis