On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 11:51:15AM +1100, Darren Reed
wrote:
> William Wanders wrote:
> >...
> >The feature wishlist is growing:
> >
> >...
> >- ipf/ipnat on sfe0/ath0/ath1
> >
>
> I'm willing to help you out here...
I finally fitted it onto the flash after freeing up another
512k.
> Have you thought of building a single large
image/executable that
> determines what it does by the name in argv[0]?
You have something similar like BSD's
"crunchgen/ide" tools in mind?
CRUNCHGEN(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual
CRUNCHGEN(1)
NAME
crunchgen -- generates build environment for a crunched
binary
SYNOPSIS
crunchgen [-foql] [-h makefile-header-name] [-m
makefile-name]
[-p obj-prefix] [-c c-file-name] [-e
exec-file-name]
[conf-file]
DESCRIPTION
A crunched binary is a program made up of many other
programs linked
together into a single executable. The crunched binary
main() function
determines which component program to run by the
contents of argv[0].
The main reason to crunch programs together is for
fitting as many pro-
grams as possible onto an installation or system
recovery floppy.
Would be really nice if something like this existed for
OpenSolaris.
However the current /bin (0.8mb), /usr/bin (5mb) and
/usr/sbin (3mb) seem
to be quite small already. The kernel (14mb) and library
directories
/lib (10mb) and /usr/lib (10mb) take up most of the space at
this time.
The /platform (5.6mb) directory is also quite large because
of the 4.5mb
boot_archive file.
If compressed kernel modules would also be useable after
mounting root
it could save about 4.5mb (6mb if genunix could be
compressed also  .
William.
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