Re: minimum installation query

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 21 January 2008 13:16, pl...@pi... wrote:
> > If you are willing to sacrifice the help subsystem in order to make the
> > footprint smaller, then logically you would also want to omit help.c from
> > the list of source files and comment out the calls to its routines.
> 
> I'm not that tight I need to byte pinch at this stage but saving 500k + is  
> relevant.

So now I'm curious as to how small you managed to make the executable.

What drivers have you decided to include?
Did you link to shared libraries, or is it static?
What sort of display is present on the device you are building for?

Can you suggest alternative mechanisms for help access that would be
reasonable?   Maybe the "help" command could trigger a web browser 
pointed to on-line documentation hosted elsewhere.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt