[BusyBox] small PPP implementation?

Robin Gilks robin.gilks at tait.co.nz
Fri Mar 11 00:21:39 UTC 2005


Vladimir N. Oleynik wrote:
> Robert,
> 
>>> I havn`t 8xx target, but my pppd-2.4.3 port for IA32
>>> have 106k (with BSS - 137k):
>>> ftp://ftp.simtreas.ru/pub/my/bb/new/pppd.c.gz
> 
> 
>> hmmm ... i'm building a system for an 8xx target as well which
>> includes PPP and, sure enough, a stripped version of the pppd 2.4.3
>> executable (cross-compiled with ELDK 3.1) is right around 262K, so i'm
>> assuming robin and i did pretty much the same thing.
>>
>> i certainly don't see how to get it any smaller.  i just used the
>> "ppc_8xx-strip" executable that comes with ELDK 3.1.
> 
> 
> If to look at the first lines at the specified URL,
> you will see, that I have exclude the opportunities necessary to me,
> it and is half of mine changes.
> Therefore and the size has decreased almost half.
> And I have resulted size for the object module only,
> which uses also some functions from libbb library.
> 

How did you integrate your pppd module into busybox (or at least to use 
the libbb library?). If you have the necessary Makefile handy I'd most 
appreciate it.

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Robin Gilks
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