libguestfs/supermin
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tool for creating supermin appliances (formerly called febootstrap). http://libguestfs.org
5 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2015-11-08 · latest 2023-01-22
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…binaries. glibc is terrible - it links huge amounts of code into even the smallest program. [1] https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin/blob/86fd6f3e86ab99d5...
comment by rwmj · 2023-01-22 · in Nolibc: A minimal C-library replacement shipped with the kernel -
…statically linked. The final size of the init binary was about 1/40th as big as when using glibc: https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin/blob/c97b3917068597a0...
comment by rwmj · 2019-10-18 · in Dietlibc – a Libc optimized for small size -
…is not really much better than yours) is a script that creates some assembler and assembles it: https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin/blob/master/src/bin2s... I think it's bad that such a simple thing is so hard to do. Edit: In fact…
comment by rwmj · 2015-12-31 · in Incorporating and accessing binary data into a C program -
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Supermin – Tool for creating supermin appliancesstory by eatonphil · 2015-11-08 · 0 comments
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Supermin is actively developed. The last commit was 2 days ago. https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin/commits/master Having said that, it's not relevant to what the OP wants to do. libguestfs, however, is very relevant.
comment by rwmj · 2015-11-08 · in Creating purpose-built TinyCoreLinux Images