[Samba] smaller samba binaries for embedded system

Radha Mohan mohun106 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 22 12:08:37 GMT 2009


I need only smbd,nmbd,smbpasswd and maybe winbindd.
So maybe they can fit in 3-4MB..

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Björn Jacke <bj at sernet.de> wrote:

> On 2009-02-21 at 20:04 +0530 Radha Mohan sent off:
> > I am trying to build a nas box for an embedded device that runs Linux. I
> > have cross compiled the samba-3.0.24 suite, but the binaries i got are
> > bigger and could not fit onto the free space that I have on the flash (i
> > have only 2MB free).
>
> someone proposed to introduce a libsambacore.so shared lib, taking most
> shareable code which is not in a shared lib. I'm sure _overall_ size of
> samba
> would be dramatically reduced with that. I fear still more than 2MB however
> ...
>
> See https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5995 ...
>
> Björn
>


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