reduce wrapper program size by linking against musl

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reduce wrapper program size by linking against musl #21

Closed stapelberg closed 5 years ago

stapelberg commented 5 years ago

≈700KB with glibc, ≈40KB with musl.

This is a worthwhile improvement to make: systemd’s wrapper programs (in the initrd) alone sum up to about 8 MB.

stapelberg commented 5 years ago

These disk space savings can be really significant:

% ls -lh coreutils-amd64-8.30-*.squashfs 
-rw------- 1 michael michael 85M 2019-07-30 17:07 coreutils-amd64-8.30-1.squashfs
-rw------- 1 michael michael 21M 2019-07-30 17:07 coreutils-amd64-8.30-2.squashfs