[PATCH] store --help messages in compressed form. saves 35k

Denis Vlasenko vda at ilport.com.ua
Wed Apr 26 09:46:38 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 05 April 2006 22:33, Rob Landley wrote:
> So if I build a really small busybox with only one or two applets, it has to 
> suck in the decompression code in order to give me any help text?  Can this 
> be a config option please?  (It's also nice to have it as a config option if 
> they're running from squashfs or cramfs, since compressing it twice gives 
> little benefit.)
> 
> Your patch includes archival/libunarchive/Makefile.in.orig and probably 
> shouldn't.
>
> Regarding hexdump.c, this works for me back on Red Hat 9:
> cat data | od -t x1 | sed -e 's/^[^ ]*//' -e 's/ \(..\)/"\\0x\1",/g'

All your concerns are addressed in the updated patch.
--help text packing is now a separate config option.

Please apply.
--
vda
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