Missing binaries / build system

[tito]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 05:01:45 -0500
Jeff Pohlmeyer <yetanothergeek at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 4:29 AM anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > ./make defconfig
> > ./make_single_applets.sh HTTPD
> >
> > This works, but produces 50K binary instead of 34K when selecting
> > httpd in menuconfig interactively.
> 
> That is probably because "defconfig" enables a lot of features in the
> httpd applet that are disabled when you build with "allnoconfig"
> 
> Things like: Date header, Last-Modified header, Range requests, HTTP
> authentication, custom error pages, reverse proxying, GZIP encoding,
> and CGI scripting.
> 
> That's a lot of extra functionality for a 16K increase in size. You
> can of course go back in either config and enable/disable just the
> features you need, but I don't know how you would do that
> non-interactively.

Hi,
you can just copy the .config file to the build directory.
This will work as long as there are no new config options.

Ciao,
Tito

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